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Bab El-Oued City

BAB EL-OUED CITY (1994)

Comedy, Drama | Algeria, France, Germany, Switzerland

Director: Merzak Allouache

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Rating: 6.3/10

SYNOPSIS

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...

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Writer: Merzak Allouache

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