Salah’s Cafe, open Even During Works

2012

53m

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Overview

Once an industrial centre at the junction of Roubaix and Tourcoing, the Union area is undergoing radical change as a result of an ambitious urban renewal project. Everything has been demolished, with the exception of "Chez Salah", a café that opened in 1965 and is the ultimate relic of a district inhabited mainly by workers. Its owner, Salah Oudjane, refuses to sell the worn-out two-storey building where he has spent most of his life. In spite of himself, he has become a symbol of resistance to gentrification (the renovation of a working-class neighbourhood for the benefit of wealthier social classes), and is the unlikely hero of this chronicle in which, as the seasons go by, we see bulldozers clearing the area around his café, which stands like a beacon whose glow seems to attract former residents of the district.

Status: Released

Language: FR

Production Information

Production Companies

TRIBU documenatries

Production Countries

France

Quick Facts

Original Title	Chez Salah, ouvert même pendant les travaux
Release Date	January 1, 2012
Status	Released
Language	FR

Cast

Key Crew

Nadia Bouferkas

Director

Mehmet Arikan

Director

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