Famous TV news anchorman Pierre Nivel left Algiers for France in 1962. That's been a secret; his Paris co-workers have never known that he was formerly an Algerian pied noir. An Algerian delivers an urgent message to Pierre from a Leïla Jalal... Algiers, 1962. The Nivels live in the same apartment building as the Moslem Jalal family. Lycée student Pierre is in love with their daughter, Leïla. The civil unrest in Algeria is heating up and violence is spreading in Algiers. At school, Pierre is friends with a Moslem student, Issam, but he is made fun of for that... Pierre's jet arrives in Algiers. As a celebrity, Pierre is met on arrival by a government official, Nader Mansour. Because of the civil war raging between the government and Islamic terrorists, they drive into the city in a heavily armed convoy. Pierre does not tell Mansour his real reason for returning: Leïla has asked him to help her daughter Amina escape to safety in France.
Antoine de Caunes
Samy Naceri
Mathilda May
Nozha Khouadra
Pierre Vaneck
Lorànt Deutsch
Wadeck Stanczak
Elsa Zylberstein
Matthias Van Khache
Dora Doll
Mostéfa Stiti
Abderrahmane El Kebir
Jean-Claude de Goros
Françoise Armelle-Chiche
Marie Guillard
François-Xavier Noah
Raphaël Lenglet
Saïd Amadis
Daniel Saint-Hamont
Nadia Samir