Bab El Oued City

Bab El Oued City

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...

Release Date

November 16, 1994

Status

Released

Original Title

Bab El Oued City

Runtime

1h 33min

Budget

Revenue

Language

Arabic, French