Hi Cousin!

Name: Salut cousin!
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1997-02-21
Duration: 1 h 38 min
Rating: 5.8
Cast: Gad Elmaleh, Messaoud Hattau, Magaly Berdy

Original title: Salut cousin!

1996
1h 38m

IMDb RATING

5.8/10

316

YOUR RATING

Comedy

Salut Cousin! is the tale of two Algerian cousins and their mishaps in the racially volatile environment of Paris.Salut Cousin! is the tale of two Algerian cousins and their mishaps in the racially volatile environment of Paris.Salut Cousin! is the tale of two Algerian cousins and their mishaps in the racially volatile environment of Paris.

Director
- Merzak Allouache
Writers
- Merzak Allouache
- Caroline Thivel
Stars

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IMDb RATING

5.8/10

316

YOUR RATING

Director
- Merzak Allouache
Writers
- Merzak Allouache
- Caroline Thivel
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 3 wins & 1 nomination

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Trivia
Awards:
Prix de la Bourse d'Aide du Festival International de Montpellier, avec le concours de la société Agfa
Prix des Critiques Arabes au Festival de Cannes 1996

Connections
Follows Bab El Oued City (1994)

Soundtracks
Iraal Ding Dingue Ding
Written by Amazigh Kateb and Gnawa Diffusion
Performed by Gnawa Diffusion

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entertaining and enriching

Salut portrays post-modern French society, through the eyes of Maghrebines, truthfully and comically. The characters, despite certain eccentricities, are real and the actors who play them are truly talented. The movie follows a few days of an Algerian man, Alilo's, "business" trip to Paris where he stays with his cousin who has lived in the city for years. He is unfamiliar with the metropolitan ways of the city of that of his cousin. However, he soon finds that he is in love and wishes to stay in the city. Amidst that, we see the underlying problems peoples of Maghreb and immigrant decent face in France today.