The Kid from Chaâba
Synopsis
Omar 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.
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Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Vertigo Productions
- Co-productions : Orly Films, Les Films Christiani
- Film exports/foreign sales : Newen Connect a TF1 Group Company
- French distribution : AFMD
Full credits (15)
- Executive Producers : Aïssa Djabri, Farid Lahouassa, Manuel Munz
- Author of original work : Azouz Begag
- Sound Recordist : Jean-Pierre Duret
- Screenwriter : Christophe Ruggia
- Director of Photography : Dominique Chapuis
- Sound Assistant : Jonathan Acbard
- Assistant Operators : Françoise Noyon, Steeven Petitteville
- Production Manager : Rodolphe Pélicier
- Press Attaché (film) : Thierry Lenouvel
- Editor : Nicole Dedieu
- Production Designer : Richard Cahours de Virgile
- Music Composer : Safy Boutella
- Costume designers : Elsa Rio, Florence Julienne
- Sales Agent : Raphaël Berdugo
- Still Photographer : Albert Dagbert
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Childhood
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- 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
- Color type : Color
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Omar’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
