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Bab El-Oued City (1994)Follows the conflict between a young Algerian man and the local Islamic fundamentalists. Director:Merzak AllouacheWriter:Merzak Allouache |
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Nadia Kaci | ... |
Yamina
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Mohamed Ourdache | ... |
Said
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Hassan Abidou | ... |
Boualem
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Mabrouk Ait Amara | ... |
Mabrouk
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Messaoud Hattau | ... |
Mess
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Mourad Khen | ... |
Rachid
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Djamila | ... |
Lalla Djamila
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Simone Vignote | ... |
The aunt
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Michel Such | ... |
Paulo Gosen
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Nadia Samir | ... |
Ouardya
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Areski Nebti | ... |
Hassan the baker
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Osmane Bechikh | ... |
The postman
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Fawzi B. Saichi | ... |
The shoemender
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Fatma Zohra Bouseboua | ... |
Hanifa
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Ahmed Benaissa | ... |
The Imam
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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... Written by Yepok
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Language:
ArabicRelease Date:
16 November 1994 (France) See more »Filming Locations:
Algiers, AlgeriaCompany Credits
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Interesting and informative, if not deeply emotionally gripping. A portrait of the rise of local thuggish Islamic fundamentalists in Algeria, and their conflict with a moderate baker who steals their blaring speaker so he can sleep.
With a few exceptions the characters aren't very deep and are confined to archetypes, although the ending twist is interesting. That said, this grew on me a bit on a 2nd viewing. While the acting still often seemed amateurish, there was more emotion, and more a sense of a film with historical import; an attempt to capture and understand a moment in time when everything in a society is changing.