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
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00:00:26 Bye. - May God protect you!
00:04:43 Are we going to play football, Sélim?
00:09:38 He smells like piss! - Piss?
00:13:07 Take the bucket!
00:16:08 Come on!
00:21:05 Five
00:25:04 You'll see.
00:28:29 That one I never remember.
00:32:15 9 x 8?
00:35:15 Zohra, come help me!
00:42:30 "Small fast ship"
00:47:15 They said: "You keep your tunic for ten days."
00:52:23 Asshole, you don't want us to copy off you, huh?
00:54:42 And anyway, why wouldn't it be you?
00:56:51 Shared first with Nasser Bouaffia.
01:00:01 It isn't possible.
01:06:08 Lazy-bone!
01:08:45 I want to die!
01:11:40 Smile!
01:16:29 This was my secret, Omar.
01:19:28 He won't tell you more than me, Dad.
01:22:26 "I'm born in a big hospital.
01:26:00 "Now it's the summer holidays.
01:31:34 Subtitles by Didgilmar and Subransu