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''The African Doctor'' (in French ''Bienvenue à Marly-Gomont'') is a 2016 French comedy-drama film starring Marc Zinga and Aïssa Maïga. It is based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamini_(rapper) Kamini Zantoko]]'s personal experience, which first inspired him the humorous HipHop song [[https://youtu.be/GGPXjiwlWZc "Marly-Gomont"]].
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''The African Doctor'' (in French ''Bienvenue à Marly-Gomont'') is a 2016 French comedy-drama film starring Marc Zinga and Aïssa Maïga. It is based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamini_(rapper) Kamini Zantoko]]'s personal experience, which first inspired him the famous/memetic humorous HipHop song [[https://youtu.be/GGPXjiwlWZc "Marly-Gomont"]].
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''The African Doctor'' (in French ''Bienvenue à Marly-Gomont'') is a 2016 French comedy-drama film starring Marc Zinga and Aïssa Maïga. It is based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamini_(rapper) Kamini Zantoko]]'s personal experience.
After his graduation as MD in a French university, Seyolo Zantoko, a Zairian, wants to stay in France. The only opportunity he has to be allowed to stay is accepting to work in a small backward village of Northern France. He settles there with his wife and his two children. Their integration in the local community will be more difficult than he expected.
After his graduation as MD in a French university, Seyolo Zantoko, a Zairian, wants to stay in France. The only opportunity he has to be allowed to stay is accepting to work in a small backward village of Northern France. He settles there with his wife and his two children. Their integration in the local community will be more difficult than he expected.
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''The African Doctor'' (in French ''Bienvenue à Marly-Gomont'') is a 2016 French comedy-drama film starring Marc Zinga and Aïssa Maïga. It is based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamini_(rapper) Kamini Zantoko]]'s personalexperience.
experience, which first inspired him the humorous HipHop song [[https://youtu.be/GGPXjiwlWZc "Marly-Gomont"]].
After his graduation as MD in a French university, Seyolo Zantoko, aZairian, [[UsefulNotes/DemocraticRepublicOfTheCongo Zairian]], wants to stay in France.UsefulNotes/{{France}}. The only opportunity he has to be allowed to stay is accepting to work in a small backward village of Northern France. He settles there with his wife and his two children. Their integration in the local community will be more difficult than he expected.
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''The African Doctor'' (in French ''Bienvenue à Marly-Gomont'') is a 2016 French comedy-drama film starring Marc Zinga and Aïssa Maïga. It is based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamini_(rapper) Kamini Zantoko]]'s personal
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* {{Determinator}}: Dr Seyolo Zantoko is determined to get accepted in the village, even if he soon realizes that it will be very difficult. (The first patient who calls him shoots at him with a gun when he sees that he is a black person.)
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* {{Determinator}}: Dr Dr. Seyolo Zantoko is determined to get accepted in the village, even if he soon realizes that it will be very difficult. (The first patient who calls him shoots at him with a gun when he sees that he is a black person.)
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* HeroicBSOD: Dr Zantoko has one after the gendarmes forbid him from practising medicine.
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* HeroicBSOD: Dr Dr. Zantoko has one after the gendarmes forbid him from practising medicine.medicine.
* AnImmigrantsTale: Dr. Zantoko's story.
* AnImmigrantsTale: Dr. Zantoko's story.
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* GospelRevivalNumber: During the midnight mass, the whole Zantoko family, led by SassyBlackWoman, starts singing a gospel song.
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* GospelRevivalNumber: During the midnight mass, the whole Zantoko family, led by a SassyBlackWoman, starts singing a gospel song.
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* UnwantedRescue: The pregnant woman does not want to be saved by Dr Zantoko. She does not trust him because he is black.
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* UnwantedRescue: The pregnant woman does not want to be saved by Dr Zantoko. She does not trust him because he is black. The situation is dire enough that he, along with her husband, manage to force the woman into accepting help. His saving the day is a major turning point in the village accepting him.
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* ForeignCultureFetish: Dr Seyolo Zantoko admires French culture. This allows him to ignore the outright hostility of most of the villagers.
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* TheAllegedCar: The old car that the mayor gives to Dr Zantoko. It soon breaks down.
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: The film is set in the 70's. Dr Zantoko says his daughter could one day play in France national football team. She answers there are very few black people in the French team. In was true in the 70's, but it is [[https://static.lexpress.fr/medias_10962/w_2048,h_1146,c_crop,x_0,y_140/w_640,h_360,c_fill,g_north/v1465464308/l-equipe-de-france-contre-l-ecosse-en-match-amical-le-04-juin-2016-a-metz_5612779.jpg clearly not the case in 2016]].
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: The film is set in the 70's. Dr Zantoko says tells his daughter could that one day she could play in France national football team. She answers there are very few black people in the French team. In was true in the 70's, but it is [[https://static.lexpress.fr/medias_10962/w_2048,h_1146,c_crop,x_0,y_140/w_640,h_360,c_fill,g_north/v1465464308/l-equipe-de-france-contre-l-ecosse-en-match-amical-le-04-juin-2016-a-metz_5612779.jpg clearly not the case in 2016]].
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* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Dr Zantoko tries to imitate the local people. He goes to the local pub, he drinks calvados and beer, he plays darts and he uses some words of the local dialect.
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* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Dr Zantoko tries to imitate the local people. He goes to the local pub, he drinks calvados and beer, he plays darts and cards, and he uses some words of the local dialect.
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: The film is set in the 70's. Dr Zantoko says his daughter could one day play in France national football team. She answers there are very few black people in the French team. In was true in the 70's, but it is clearly not the case in 2016.
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: The film is set in the 70's. Dr Zantoko says his daughter could one day play in France national football team. She answers there are very few black people in the French team. In was true in the 70's, but it is [[https://static.lexpress.fr/medias_10962/w_2048,h_1146,c_crop,x_0,y_140/w_640,h_360,c_fill,g_north/v1465464308/l-equipe-de-france-contre-l-ecosse-en-match-amical-le-04-juin-2016-a-metz_5612779.jpg clearly not the case in 2016.2016]].
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: The film is set in the 70's. Dr Zantoko says his daughter could one day play in France national football team. She answers there are very few black people in the French team. In was true in the 70's, but it is clearly not the case in 2016.
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* LocalHangout: The pub where Dr Zantoko spends a lot of time to socialize with the locals.
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* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Dr Zantoko tries to imitate the local people. He goes to the local pub, he drinks calvados and beer, he plays darts and he uses some words of the local dialect.
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* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: Anne Zantoko, who speaks French perfectly, does not understand a word from the local dialect, ''vindious'' (''vingt dieux'' in Standard French, which means "for God's sake"). She thinks this is a form of salutation, since some people say this when they see her (actually, they say it because they are surprised to see a black person). So, she use it to say hello.
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* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: Anne Zantoko, who speaks French perfectly, does not understand a word from the local dialect, ''vindious'' (''vingt dieux'' in Standard French, which means "for God's sake"). She thinks this is a form of salutation, since some people say this when they see her (actually, they say it because they are surprised to see a black person). So, she use uses it to say hello.
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* BilingualBonus: Many lines of dialogue in Lingala are not translated.
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* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: Anne Zantoko, who speaks French perfectly, does not understand a word from the local dialect, ''vindious'' (''vingt dieux'' in Standard French, which means "for God's sake"). She thinks this is a form of salutation, since some people say this when they see her (actually, they say it because they are surprised to see a black person). So, she use it to say hello.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: The Zantokos in the village. Most villagers are outright hostile to them because they are black. In particular, the children suffer from this situation at school, where they are the target of racial slurs.
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* GospelRevivalNumber: During the midnight mass, the whole Zantoko family, led by SassyBlackWoman, starts singing a gospel song.
* HateSink: Lavigne, who does everything he can to encourage the villagers to reject Dr Zantoko for political reason.
* HeroicBSOD: Dr Zantoko has one after the gendarmes forbid him from practising medicine.
* MeaningfulFuneral: Dr Zantoko's funeral. The attendance of the whole village shows that he was finally accepted.
* HateSink: Lavigne, who does everything he can to encourage the villagers to reject Dr Zantoko for political reason.
* HeroicBSOD: Dr Zantoko has one after the gendarmes forbid him from practising medicine.
* MeaningfulFuneral: Dr Zantoko's funeral. The attendance of the whole village shows that he was finally accepted.
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* UnwantedRescue: The pregnant woman does not want to be saved by Dr Zantoko. She does not trust him because he is black.
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* {{Determinator}}: Dr Seyolo Zantoko is determined to get accepted in the village, even if he soon realizes that it will be very difficult. (The first patient who calls him shoots at him with a gun when he sees that he is a black person.)
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* SchoolPlay: There is one in the climax which stages the prior events of the film. The reaction of the audience shows that the Zantokos are definitively accepted in the village.
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''The African Doctor'' (in French ''Bienvenue à Marly-Gomont'') is a 2016 French comedy-drama film starring Marc Zinga and Aïssa Maïga.
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''The African Doctor'' (in French ''Bienvenue à Marly-Gomont'') is a 2016 French comedy-drama film starring Marc Zinga and Aïssa Maïga. \n It is based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamini_(rapper) Kamini Zantoko]]'s personal experience.
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''The African Doctor'' (in French ''Bienvenue à Marly-Gomont'') is a 2016 French comedy-drama film starring Marc Zinga and Aïssa Maïga.
After his graduation as MD in a French university, Seyolo Zantoko, a Zairian, wants to stay in France. The only opportunity he has to be allowed to stay is accepting to work in a small backward village of Northern France. He settles there with his wife and his two children. Their integration in the local community will be more difficult than he expected.
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!!''The African Doctor'' provides examples of:
* BasedOnATrueStory: This film is based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamini_(rapper) Kamini Zantoko]]'s personal experience. Kamini is one of the scriptwriters.
* BreakUpMakeUpScenario: At some point, Anne, Seyolo's wife, leaves her husband to live in Brussels. In the end, Anne and Seyolo reconcile.
* CityMouse: Seyolo's family comes from Kinshasa, the Zairian capital, so it is still more difficult for them to live in a small village.
* DistantFinale: The proper ending of the plot is Seyolo's definitive acceptance in the village after the local elections. Then, there is an epilogue about Seyolo's funeral many years later.
* FishOutOfWater: A Zairian family in a small backward village of Northern France.
* SportsHeroBackstory: Sivi, Seyolo's daughter, is very good at soccer. She is even selected to play in the adult male local soccer club and she completely outmatches her opponents.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: After the DistantFinale, we hear what happened to each member of Seyolo's family.
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After his graduation as MD in a French university, Seyolo Zantoko, a Zairian, wants to stay in France. The only opportunity he has to be allowed to stay is accepting to work in a small backward village of Northern France. He settles there with his wife and his two children. Their integration in the local community will be more difficult than he expected.
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!!''The African Doctor'' provides examples of:
* BasedOnATrueStory: This film is based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamini_(rapper) Kamini Zantoko]]'s personal experience. Kamini is one of the scriptwriters.
* BreakUpMakeUpScenario: At some point, Anne, Seyolo's wife, leaves her husband to live in Brussels. In the end, Anne and Seyolo reconcile.
* CityMouse: Seyolo's family comes from Kinshasa, the Zairian capital, so it is still more difficult for them to live in a small village.
* DistantFinale: The proper ending of the plot is Seyolo's definitive acceptance in the village after the local elections. Then, there is an epilogue about Seyolo's funeral many years later.
* FishOutOfWater: A Zairian family in a small backward village of Northern France.
* SportsHeroBackstory: Sivi, Seyolo's daughter, is very good at soccer. She is even selected to play in the adult male local soccer club and she completely outmatches her opponents.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: After the DistantFinale, we hear what happened to each member of Seyolo's family.
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