French ethnographer Jean Rouch's collaborative ethnofiction follows Nigerien migrant workers in Abidjan through the eyes of a longshoreman who calls himself Edward Robinson, played by Oumarou Ganda, who later became a director in his own right, and won the Prix Louis Delluc in 1958.
Fun fact: The film's improvisatory method, in which Ganda narrated his own performance after filming, became the direct inspiration for Ganda's own 1969 debut Cabascabo.