Drama ·Comedy · Algeria · 1994 · 1h 33m

Bab El Oued City

Director

Cast

Nadia Kaci as Yamina Mohamed Ourdache as Said Djohra Bachene as Lalla Djamila Nadia Samir as Osmane Bechikh as Le Postier Massoud Hattou as Mess

Crew

Jean-Jacques Mréjen — Director of Photography Marie-Blanche Colonna — Editor Rachid Bahri — Original Music Composer Merzak Allouache — Writer Jacques Bidou — Producer Jean-Pierre Gallepe — Producer

Synopsis

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...

Mood & Themes

algeria

Key Collaborators

Merzak Allouache Director Jean-Jacques Mréjen Director of Photography Marie-Blanche Colonna Editor Rachid Bahri Original Music Composer Merzak Allouache Writer Jacques Bidou Producer Jean-Pierre Gallepe Producer Yacine Djadi Producer

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