Bab El Oued City

(1994)

★ 6.2 IMDb · 10 votes

Genres: Drama, Comedy

Year: 1994

Runtime: 93 мин

Country: Algeria

Director: Merzak Allouache

Cast: Nadia Kaci, Mohamed Ourdache, Djorha Bachene, Nadia Samir, Osmane Bechikh, Massoud Hattou, Hassan Abidou, Mabrouk Ait Amara, Mourad Khen, Simone Vignote

Plot

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...