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Bab El Oued City (1994)

Bab El Oued City (1994)

Drama Comedy
Release Date: 1994, November 16
Directors: Merzak Allouache
Countries: Algeria
Production: Flash Back Audiovisuel, Flash Back Audiovisuel, La Sept Cinéma, La Sept Cinéma, Les Matins Films, Les Matins Films, ZDF, ZDF, Thelma Film, Thelma Film
Cast: Nadia Kaci, Ahmed Benaissa, Mourad Khen, Mohamed Ourdache, Fawzi B. Saichi, Michel Such, Massoud Hattou, Djohra Bachene, Osmane Bechikh, Hassan Abidou, Mabrouk Ait Amara, Simone Vignote

Overview:

Bab El-Oued, a popular district of Algiers, in 1989, a few months after the riots. Boualem works at night in a bakery and steals the loudspeaker that was installed on his roof and was broadcasting the Imam's word... therefore preventing him from sleeping. This blunder is taken as a pretext by the Islamists to put the district under their control...

Keywords:

algeria