Salut cousin ! (1996)

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Movie basic details

Current status - Released
Total runtime - 98 mins.
Release date - 15-11-1996
Release year - 1996
Genres - Comedy

Overall ratings and scores for Hi Cousin!:
Happiness Score - 4.364/10, World Popularity Score - 1.221/100, IMDB Score - 5.9, Metascore - N/A, Internet Movie Database - 5.9/10, .
Hi Cousin! movie has Total Global Votes - 11, Total IMD Votes - 302

Hi Cousin! Movie Introduction: Movie Hi Cousin!, release year 1996 is written by Merzak Allouache, Caroline Thivel and directed by Merzak Allouache. The leading star-cast in this movie are Gad Elmaleh, Messaoud Hattau, Magaly Berdy along with the other stars and crew members.

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Movie overview and plot by Anagha Shashank

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

Movie story-line: The comedy in this lively film barely conceals its darker, more serious undertones as it chronicles a young Algerian's eye-opening introduction to the joys and travails of being an immigrant in Paris. Alilo has left his home to pick up an important suitcase for his employer. Unfortunately, he has lost the Parisian address. Fortunately, his cousin Mok, emigrated there several years before with his middle-class family before and is able to act as a guide. Mok, an aspiring rap singer, comes from a middle-class family, but chooses to live on his own in the dilapidated deteriorating 18th district, known as 'Moskova.' Mok characterizes the place as a haven for artists and intellectuals, but it is plainly just a Third World slum filled with tightly knit and colorful neighbors. Mok and Alilo have many interesting, some tragedy-tinged adventures over the five days it takes them to find the suitcase.

Movie synopsis: Alilo arrives in Paris, met by his hip cousin Mok. Alilo is to pick up a suitcase of dresses to smuggle back to Algiers for resale. He's lost the dressmaker's address and his boss is gone for five days, so he stays in the Moskova neighborhood of the 18th arrondissement with Mok. Mok makes rap music of Jean de La Fontaine's fables, invents fabrications of his own, is in debt to his bookie, and in love with a punk rocker. Alilo's old-country sweetness, in contrast with Mok's big-city neuroses, gets the attention of Fatoumata, a lovely African neighbor. Once Alilo gets the dresses, he must return to Algiers, but it seems he's only started to live: is there any way he can stay?

Highlights - Hi Cousin! (1996)

Total budget - $0.00
Total revenue - $0.00
Produced by - Samsa FilmRTBFJBA ProductionArtémis ProductionsLa Sept CinémaFlash Back AudiovisuelCléa Productions
Produced in - FranceAlgeriaBelgiumLuxembourg
Available languages - Arabic (العربية), French (Français),
Homepage URL -
Awards won / Nominations - 3 wins & 1 nomination
Certificate(s) -

Lead Actors, Writer(s), Director(s) of Hi Cousin! (1996)

Lead Actors - Gad Elmaleh, Messaoud Hattau, Magaly Berdy
Writer(s) - Merzak Allouache, Caroline Thivel
Director(s) - Merzak Allouache