Bab El Oued City
1994, Arabic. Directed by Merzak Allouache.
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...
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Arabic
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- Released
- 16 November 1994
- Country
- Algeria
- Written by
- Merzak Allouache
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Bab El Oued City runs 93 minutes (1h 33m).
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Bab El Oued City isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 16 November 1994. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
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Who directed Bab El Oued City?
Bab El Oued City (1994) was directed by Merzak Allouache and stars Nadia Kaci, Mohamed Ourdache, Djohra Bachene.