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Tag: Algerian Movies

The Battle of Algiers – Summary and Analysis

Posted on June 23, 2019June 23, 2019 by JL Admin

Summary: Battle of Algiers starts with Ali La Pointe’s arrest in 1957, before a flashback cuts to 1954 when Ali was still a small-time thug. Radicalised in jail, he joins the National Liberation Front (FNL), becoming a key player in the battle for Algerian independence. Using Ali as a way to connect different events, the…

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Bab El-Oued City: Summary and Analysis

Posted on June 21, 2019 by JL Admin

Summary: A young baker, Boualem, steals a speaker from the rooftop of his apartment building in the working-class Algerian neighbourhood of Bab El-Oued. The speaker belongs to the community’s mosque; it spreads the disembodied voice of the Imam across the neighbourhood and keeps Boualem from sleeping in the early hours before his shift. The theft…

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