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The Kid from Chaaba (1998)

The Kid from Chaaba (1998)

Drama
Release Date: 1998, January 14
Directors: Christophe Ruggia
Countries: France
Production: Films Christiani, Orly Films, Vertigo Productions
Cast: Manuela Gourary, Lounès Tazairt, François Morel, Mohamed Fellag, Amina Medjoubi, Galamelah Lagra, Bouzid Negnoug, Nabil Ghalem, Kenza Bouanika, Abdelkarim Chebel

Overview:

Le Gone du Chaâba (The Kid of the Chaaba), translated into English as Shantytown Kid by Naima Wolf, is an autobiographical novel by Azouz Begag about his life as a young Algerian boy growing up in a shantytown next to Lyon, France, called the Chaâba by its inhabitants. The story covers a period of approximately three years in the life of the protagonist and deals with issues developing from the clash between two cultures, that of France and that of North Africa, as well as the difficulties of finding a cultural identity between the two. The story focuses on the cultural differences between the Arab and French communities, as well as how the two groups react to each other

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