Bab El-Oued City (1994)
- 6.4
- 93 mins
- Drama, History
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...—Yepok
Plot Keywords
gym, cemetery, beach, bar, beer drinking, arabic, north africa, lesbian subtext, speaker, political activist, algeria, postman, pizza, hijab, muslim, eavesdropping, city name in title, voice over writing, told in flashback, bakery
Short Review
Merzak Allouache's feature contains one of the clearest and most persuasive depictions of the recent rise of Islamic fundamentalism.
Trailer
Streaming Service
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