In a working class district of Algiers, shortly after the riots of 1988, a young bakery worker rips out a loudspeaker broadcasting the propaganda of an Islamic fundamentalist group. This act of frustration is taken as a provocation by the local extremist organization, which happens to be led by the brother of the bakery worker's lover. "The most lucid depiction on film of the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Algeria" (Deborah Young, Variety). Winner of the FIPRESCI international film critics' prize at Cannes. Merzak Allouache---Algeria/France/Germany/Switzerland---1994---93 mins.

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  Release Date: 12/27/2006