AV# 10277
Bab el-oued City



Video Cassette - 1 hour, 32 minutes - Color - 1994



In this film, set in a working class district of Algiers during October of 1988, a frustrated, sleepless baker rips out a rooftop speaker broadcasting Islamic rhetoric and throws it into the sea - sparking a violent reaction by fundamentalists. Letterbox ed; in Arabic and French with English subtitles. Written and directed by Merzak Allouache; stars Hassan Abdou, Nadia Kaci, Mohammed Ourdache, Mourad Khen.


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