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Bab El Oued City (1994)
Directed by Merzak Allouache
Drama, Comedy · 1h 33m
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...
Cast
Nadia Kaci
Mohamed Ourdache
Djohra Bachene
Osmane Bechikh
Massoud Hattou
Michel Such
Areski Nebti
Crew
- Director
- Merzak Allouache
- Writer
- Merzak Allouache
- Director of Photography
- Jean-Jacques Mréjen
- Original Music Composer
- Rachid Bahri
- Editor
- Marie-Blanche Colonna
- Producer
- Jacques Bidou, Jean-Pierre Gallepe, Yacine Djadi
Details
- Release date
- 1994-11-16
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Original language
- AR
- Spoken languages
- Arabic, French
- Countries
- Algeria
- Production
- Flash Back Audiovisuel, La Sept Cinéma, Les Matins Films, ZDF, Thelma Film