Bab El-Oued City
Synopsis
Bab el-Oued is a working class district of Algiers, shortly after the bloody riots of 1988. Boualem is a young worker in the district bakery. He works hard at night and sleeps during the day. One morning, he committed a "foolish" act which is going to put all the district in a high state of excitement. A group of young extremists headed by Saïd, set up in the search of the author of this "provocative" act with the intention of administrating him an exemplar punishment. Bab el-oued is the chronicle of a microcosmic district where contradictions, manipulations and exclusion melt in an electrical atmosphere of intolerance which is getting more and more intensive. Violence settles down and quickly developes when Yamina, Saïd's young sister is caught in meeting Boualem, she is in love with him in secret...
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (11)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Les Matins Films
- Co-production : La Sept Cinéma
- Foreign production companies : Thelma Film AG, Flash-back Audiovisuel, ZDF - Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
- Film exports/foreign sales : Playtime
- French distribution : MKL Distribution
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producers : Jean-Pierre Gallèpe, Jacques Bidou, Merzak Allouache
- Screenwriter : Merzak Allouache
- Director of Photography : Jean-Jacques Mréjen
- Music Composer : Rachid Bahri
- Editor : Marie-Blanche Colonna
- Sound Recordist : Philippe Sénéchal
- Production Manager : Tahar Harhoura
- Press Attaché (film) : François Hassan Guerrar
- Sound Mixer : Jean-Pierre Laforce
- Still Photographer : Alain Rousseau
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : Arabic
- Coproducer countries : Algeria, Germany, Switzerland, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (Algeria, Germany, Switzerland, France)
