Bab El Oued City

Drama, Comedy

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Merzak Allouache

Status Released

Release Date 1994-11-16

Storyline

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...