Bab El Oued City
1994 · 93 MIN · IMDB 6.5 · 230 VOTES · DIR. Merzak Allouache
Overview
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...
Dialogue Timeline — 908 lines
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00:01:16 What got into you that day?
00:05:45 and I have to clean up.
00:09:34 Open the window.
00:12:16 In three days a boat will be here with some nice stuff.
00:16:22 I didn't dream at all.
00:18:40 I stay closed in because of him!
00:22:07 I'll borrow two!
00:27:10 What speaker? Are you accusing us?
00:31:13 I'm sick of it.
00:34:44 To water the flowers. And for a bit of change.
00:37:08 I love you, Yamina. Let's see each other again.
00:41:05 I was near the church with the kids.
00:43:59 The Imam helped you, put you up. Not Saïd.
00:47:16 Doing business?
00:49:41 I've been everywhere!
00:52:59 And breasts like you wouldn't believe!
00:57:38 We must banish violence and hatred.
01:00:42 Who is it from?
01:03:36 Only sleep.
01:07:29 There's a mosque over there. It's time for prayer.
01:14:51 Come on. Let's split.
01:18:48 If the Imam heard you... Be polite.
01:21:51 We'll contact you.
01:25:38 And gone!
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed908
Dialogue density9.8 lines / min
First line00:01:16
Final line01:25:38
Production Record
DirectorMerzak Allouache
LanguageArabic
IMDb votes230