welcome to treichville

A group of young Nigerians come to Ivory Coast to find work. They end up in Treichville, a poor quarter of Abidjan, lost and rootless in modern civilisation. The hero, who narrates his own story, calls himself Edward J. Robinson in homage to the American actor. Like him, his friends have adopted pseudonyms intended to create, symbolically, an ideal personality.

Work, friendship, music, sports, leisure, girls, love, violence, this film counts the occupations and aspiration, rocked in american movies, of this displaced youth, who came to Abidjan seeking a better future.

Jean Rouch was a French filmmaker and anthropologist who died in 2004 leaving behind him more than a hundred movies.
He is considered as one the pioneers of visual anthropology and the father of ethnofiction.