Bab El Oued City

Bab El Oued City (1994)

Rating

Genre: Drama, Comedy

Runtime: 1hr 33min

Director: Merzak Allouache

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DESCRIPTION

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...