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?
00:05:47 I'm off to Canada.
00:09:37 No! I'd rather not.
00:12:44 You want to embarrass us? I'll take care of it.
00:16:45 And Omar just got married.
00:19:04 I'm finished. You can take it off.
00:23:09 Do you want the women to see you.
00:27:53 We can all chip in for another one.
00:32:14 What are you doing here! You hypocrite...
00:35:25 Why did you want to see me?
00:38:55 You! I'll bring back hard currency, you stay.
00:42:44 Hi. How you doing?
00:45:23 Sorry, Saïd. I didn't mean to do it.
00:48:22 Hello, ladies!
00:51:55 During the riots?
00:55:24 They know it's you.
00:59:43 Others are lucky too. If they bring me perfume.
01:02:42 He was extraordinary.
01:05:40 Times are changing. The Prophet said:
01:10:12 You're afraid! You're all afraid!
01:18:14 I don't know why it's empty
01:21:24 Hello, Saïd. How are you?
01:25:21 You're French?
01:31:23 Processed by C.M.C.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed908
Dialogue density9.8 lines / min
First line00:01:16
Final line01:31:23
Production Record
DirectorMerzak Allouache
LanguageArabic
IMDb votes230