Bab El Oued City (1994)

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...

Released

1994-11-16

Genres

Drama, Comedy

Runtime

93 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Merzak Allouache

TMDB rating

6.2/10 from 10 votes