Bienvenue à Marly-Gomont (2016) Directed by Julien Rambaldi
Biography / Comedy / Drama
aka: The African Doctor
Film Synopsis
In 1975, Seyolo Zantoko has just graduated in medicine in Kinshasa.
He is keen to work in France and, to the delight of himself and his wife
Anne, he is offered a post as a doctor in a small village in Picardy named
Marly-Gomont. The welcome that Seyolo receives on his arrival can hardly
be described as warm. Virtually no one in this out-of-the-way backwater
has seen a coloured person before and the entire community appears united
in their scepticism as to whether Seyolo is up to the job. Gradually,
the new doctor gains the confidence and respect of the villagers, and his
popularity is not harmed when his son manages to get himself into the local
football team...
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