Bab El Oued City
1994 • Drama | Comedy
5.9 (8)
Merzak Allouache
Director
Merzak Allouache
Writer
Status
Released
Release date
November 16, 1994
Duration
93 Min
Language
ar
Popularity
0.893
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
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...
Cast
Nadia Kaci
Mohamed Ourdache
Djorha Bachene
Nadia Samir
Osmane Bechikh
Massoud Hattou