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The Kid from Chaaba (1998)
Directed by Christophe Ruggia
Drama · 1h 36m
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
Cast
Mohamed Fellag
Lounès Tazairt
François Morel
Manuela Gourary
Crew
- Director
- Christophe Ruggia
- Novel
- Azouz Begag
- Editor
- Nicole Dedieu
- Producer
- Farid Lahouassa
Details
- Original title
- Le Gone du Chaâba
- Release date
- 1998-01-14
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French, Arabic
- Countries
- France
- Production
- Films Christiani, Orly Films, Vertigo Productions