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Bab El Oued City (1994)
Directed by Merzak Allouache
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…
Length 93 minutes
Actors
Nadia Kaci | Mohamed Ourdache | Messaoud Hattau | Djamila (Djohra Bachene) | Hassan Abidou | Mabrouk Ait Amara | Mourad Khen