La banlieue, c’est le paradis
La banlieue, c’est le paradis
Release: 2025-02-13
·Runtime: 89m
·★ 6.3
Documentary
History
In the 1960s, the suburbs were meant to be modern havens for newcomers from rural France, Portugal, Spain, North Africa, and Africa, helping rebuild post-war France. Large housing complexes symbolized this ideal, offering comfort, heating, and electricity. But by the 1980s, disillusionment set in as economic crisis, unemployment, poverty, crime, racism, and police violence took hold. Mohamed Bouhafsi tells the story of a dream that didn’t last.
Production Countries
France
Production Companies
Mediawan
Troisième Œil Productions
France Télévisions
Cast
Xavier Niel
as Self - Guest, Self - Guest, businessman
Fabien Roussel
as Self - Guest
François Mitterrand
as Self (archive footage)
Bernard Tapie
as Self - Politician, businessman (archive footage)
François Hollande
as Self - Guest
Nassira Bouhafsi
as Self - Guest
Emmanuel Macron
as Self - Guest
Akhenaton
as Self - Guest
Sabrina Ouazani
as Self - Guest
Franck Gastambide
as Self - Guest
Farida Khelfa
as Self - Guest
Sofiane Zermani
as Self - Guest
Jean-Louis Borloo
as Self - Guest
Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine
as Self - Guest
Mohamed Bouhafsi
as Self - Host, Interviewer & Narrator
Nicolas Sarkozy
as Self - Guest
Renaud Epstein
as Self - Sociologist
Dominique Tapie
as Self - Guest