Set in France during the struggle for Algerian independence, Messaoud's mother is terminally ill and his father, needing to work long hours in the factory, can't look after him, so decides to put him and his older brother Abdel in foster care. Sent to the countryside, Abdel has to work on a farm, but Messaoud is taken in by a childless woman, who conceals his Arab origins from her fiercely Gaullist ex-army husband. Re-named Michel/Michou, and with his hair comically dyed blond, the young boy quickly steals the hearts of both foster-parents, and eventually is instrumental in saving their troubled marriage.
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Gérard Depardieu as Georges
Nathalie Baye as Gisèle
Mathieu Amalric as Jacques
Samy Seghir as Messaoud / Michou
Catherine Hiegel as la directrice de l'orphelinat
Philippe Nahon as le cafetier
Bernard Yerlès as le copain de Georges
Gérald Laroche as Robert
Chick Ortega as Viguier
Mohamed Fellag as Akli
Christian Bouillette as Le maire
Abdelhafid Metalsi as Saïd
Marie Kremer as Vendeuse papeterie
Gilles Détroit as Le curé
Ludovic Berthillot as Max
Medi Kerouani as Abdel
Robert Plagnol as Duval
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