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6.4Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together.
Released: 2014-10-15118 minDir: Olivier NakacheDrama, ComedyBudget: $20.0MBox office: $151,530
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Cast
- Omar Sy as Samba Cissé
- Charlotte Gainsbourg as Alice
- Tahar Rahim as Walid aka Wilson
- Izïa Higelin as Manu
- Issaka Sawadogo as Jonas Karanoto
- Hélène Vincent as Marcelle
Themes
- immigrant
- paris, france
- language barrier
- insomnia
- kiss
- man woman relationship
- romance
- job seeking
- senegalese
- migrant
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 118
- FilmAffinity ID
- 860099
- Official website
- www.gaumont.fr/fr/film/Samba.html
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- publication date
- 2015-02-18
- title
- Samba
- review score
- 5.9/10
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2010s Serbian-language films2014 Arabic-language films2014 comedy-drama films2014 English-language films2014 films2014 French films2014 French-language films2014 multilingual films2014 Portuguese-language films2014 Russian-language filmsEnglish-language comedy-drama filmsEnglish-language French filmsFilms about immigration to FranceFilms based on French novelsFilms directed by Olivier Nakache and Éric ToledanoFilms scored by Ludovico EinaudiFilms shot in ParisFrench comedy-drama filmsFrench multilingual filmsGaumont (company) filmsTemplate film date with 2 release datesTF1 Films Production films