The Kid from Chaaba
1998 · 96 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 181 VOTES · DIR. Christophe Ruggia
Overview
Le Gone du Chaâba (The Kid of the Chaaba), translated into English as Shantytown Kid by Naima Wolf, is an autobiographical novel by Azouz Begag about his life as a young Algerian boy growing up in a shantytown next to Lyon, France, called the Chaâba by its inhabitants. The story covers a period of approximately three years in the life of the protagonist and deals with issues developing from the clash between two cultures, that of France and that of North Africa, as well as the difficulties of finding a cultural identity between the two. The story focuses on the cultural differences between the Arab and French communities, as well as how the two groups react to each other
Dialogue Timeline — 1,123 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:26 Bye. - May God protect you!
00:04:40 Let's play football!
00:09:31 Demons! Demons!
00:12:34 Better than the French.
00:15:50 He had imagined a different world.
00:20:36 Hey, give me a piece of bread.
00:24:40 And a man, too.
00:27:36 Now what is this? It's already 6:20.
00:31:19 I'll tell Dad that you do as the French. - Don't tell, Omar!
00:34:32 Do you agree?
00:40:06 What's your name?
00:46:01 Hello uncle.
00:51:15 How else can you explain that we Arabs are always last?
00:53:40 You want to ruin me, right?
00:55:38 and in addition, they can call you "Dirty wog."
00:58:45 It was he who invented the school.
01:01:44 I'm going to school.
01:07:16 Ah, avoid nylon.
01:10:21 I don't want to be guillotined.
01:12:52 With Omar?
01:17:21 And I would give anything to be able to lay my head on her knees.
01:19:58 "Slum"
01:22:54 A dream made of words as magical as strange.
01:27:28 We're alone now