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...
Ratings
IMDb6.5/10
10 audience votes
Key crew
- Merzak AllouacheDirector
- Merzak AllouacheWriter
- Rachid BahriOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Nadia KaciYamina
- Mohamed OurdacheSaid
- Djohra BacheneLalla Djamila
- Nadia SamirCast
- Osmane BechikhLe Postier
- Massoud HattouMess
- Hassan AbidouBoualem
- Mabrouk Ait AmaraMabrouk
- Mourad KhenRachid
- Simone VignoteThe Aunt
- Michel SuchPaulo Gosen
- Areski NebtiHassan the baker
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Themes
algeria