The Kid from the ChaâbaDirected by Christophe Ruggia
Produced by Vertigo Productions
Genres : Fiction - Runtime : 1 h 36 min
French release : 14/01/1998
Production year : 1998
DirectorActorsSynopsisOmar is nine years old. He lives in the "chaâba" of his father, a small shanty town somewhere deep in the 1960s. The chaâba is made up of twenty-one immigrant families from El Ourica, a village in Algeria, who have fled to France to escape from poverty and war. The youngest of their children, born in this wooden planks and corrugated iron, will grow up to become the first wave of second-generation Algerians in France. Among the various life stories that each form part of the convoluted tale of this immigration, this film follows the path of Omar, caught between this little corner of Algeria and france. AboutOmar’s solitude…The absolute need to learn, a little bit more every day… Exclusion, as much endured as called for… The refuge found in books and then the escape into writing… All these feelings which run around in his mind once ran around in mine. What interested me above all in this loosely adapted story is the journey of initiation through books which enables Omar to view life and the people around him from a different slant — a journey which leads him to the day when he finds himself alone, face to face with himself, and the impossibility of communicating becomes so unbearable that he is left with no choice but to write. Chistophe Ruggia Production and distributionAssociate production company : Vertigo Productions
Co-production : Orly Films, Les Films Christiani
Full creditsExecutive Producers : Aïssa Djabri, Farid Lahouassa, Manuel Munz
Author of original work : Azouz Begag
Screenwriter : Christophe Ruggia
Director of Photography : Dominique Chapuis
Sound Recordist : Jean-Pierre Duret
Production Manager : Rodolphe Pélicier
Press Attaché (film) : Thierry Lenouvel
Editor : Nicole Dedieu
Production Designer : Richard Cajours de Virgile
Music Composer : Safy Boutella
Costume Designers : Elsa Rio, Florence Julienne
Sales Agent : Raphaël Berdugo
Still Photographer : Albert Dagbert
Technical detailsFeature film
Genres : Fiction
Production language : French
Nationality : 100% French
Production year : 1998
French release : 14/01/1998
Runtime : 1 h 36 min
Current status : Released
Visa number : 90.227
Visa issue date : 31/12/1997
Approval : Yes
Production formats :
35mm
Screening format :
35mm
Color type : Color
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