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.
Georges
Gisèle
Jacques
Messaoud / Michou
la directrice de l'orphelinat
le cafetier
le copain de Georges
Robert
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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.
Georges
Gisèle
Jacques
Messaoud / Michou
la directrice de l'orphelinat
le cafetier
le copain de Georges
Robert
Movie / 1981
Movie / 1975
Movie / 2009
Movie / 2010
Movie / 2008
Movie / 2009
Movie / 2004
Movie / 2010
Movie / 2006
Movie / 1992
Movie / 2012
Movie / 2006
Movie / 2009
Movie / 2003
Movie / 1999
Movie / 2019
Movie / 2003
Movie / 2018
Movie / 2019
Movie / 1990