UN HOMME SANS TITRE

Jean-Louis Martinelli adapts Un homme sans titre, Xavier Le Clerc's fascinating family story, which recounts the itinerary of Mohand-Saïd Aï-Taleb, an anonymous Algerian worker drowned in the mass of cheap labor during the Trente Glorieuses.

Mohand-Saïd Aï-Taleb, born in Kabylie during the French colonial era, is the father of Xavier Le Clerc, author of an autobiographical narrative, published in 2022 by Gallimard, which asserts itself as a chronicle of emancipation in the face of identity injunctions. From the father's birth, through his arrival in France in 1962 as a metalworker in Calvados, to his son's upward social mobility, we are shown every facet of French immigration. This captivating account is a cry of revolt against the injustice of shameless exploitation, and finally gives a voice to this silent father, dispossessed of everything, who "uprooted himself so that his children could put down roots". But it also traces the son's path to integration, in a soothing narrative that invites us to reflect on the notion of overcoming identity. Alone on stage, Mounir Margoum takes on the task of embodying in theater a human journey that it is more imperative than ever not to forget.