Sami, Tacchini, Yaya and Kader are four small-time crooks from the suburbs of Paris. After a failed robbery, their boss, Carlito, sends them to Canada to spy on his fiancée. There, they are mistaken for a band of professional killers and are hired to assassinate the heiress Léonore de Segonzac...
Acting
Roschdy Zem elevates every scene he's in.
Costume
The 'professional killer' disguises are gloriously bad.
Director
Djamel Bensalah
Lorànt Deutsch
Tacchini
Roschdy Zem
Sami
Atmen Kelif
Yaya
Julien Courbey
Kader
Hélène de Fougerolles
Léonore de Segonzac
Gérard Jugnot
Carlito
Josiane Balasko
Madame Jo
Marina Foïs
La jeune nurse
Pascal Elbé
Mathias Morin, le présentateur télé
Didier Flamand
Lino
Yves Rénier
Colonel ONU
Maurice Barthélemy
Momo
Sacha Bourdo
Le laveur de pare-brises
Mouss Diouf
Capitaine ONU
Axelle Laffont
Nathalie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of the last major French studio comedies before the banlieue film genre shifted toward gritty social realism like 'La Haine' successors.
The 'Beur' comedy wave of the early 2000s—Roschdy Zem and Atmen Kelif were central figures in bringing suburban Maghrebi-French stories to mainstream audiences, though often through broad comedy rather than drama.
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