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Bab El Oued City

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IMDB ID: tt0109185

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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...

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Nadia Kaci

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Mohamed Ourdache

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Djohra Bachene

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Nadia Samir

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Osmane Bechikh

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Massoud Hattou

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Hassan Abidou

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Mabrouk Ait Amara

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Mourad Khen

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Simone Vignote

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Merzak Allouache

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Merzak Allouache

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