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Bab El Oued City

1994

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...

Details

Status
Released
Release date
November 16, 1994
Original language
Arabic
Spoken languages
Arabic, French
Countries
Algeria
Cinematography
Jean-Jacques Mréjen
Budget
Not recorded
Revenue
Not recorded
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