Bab El Oued City

Name: Bab El Oued City
Director: Merzak Allouache
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: 1994-11-16
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Nadia Kaci, Mohamed Ourdache, Djohra Bachene, Nadia Samir, Osmane Bechikh

6.2(10)19941h 33mAR

Directed by Merzak Allouache

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...