Bab El Oued City
MovieTitle | Bab El Oued City |
User score | 5.9 |
Release date | Nov 16, 1994 |
Genre | Drama, Comedy |
Director | Merzak Allouache |
Production country | Algeria |
Production companies | Flash Back Audiovisuel, La Sept Cinéma, Les Matins Films, ZDF, Thelma Film |
Run time | 93 min. |
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...