Bab El Oued City 1994

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Drama Comedy

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...

Release Date 1994-11-16
Runtime 1h 33m
Directors Merzak Allouache, Jean-Jacques Mréjen
Producers Yacine Djadi, Jean-Pierre Gallepe, Jacques Bidou
Writer Merzak Allouache