The Kid from Chaaba

Jan 14, 1998

1h 36m

★ 6.1

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

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Films Christiani

Orly Films

Vertigo Productions

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Cast

Omar

Bouzid Negnoug

Bouzid

Mohamed Fellag

Hacène

Nabil Ghalem

Farid

Galamelah Lagra

Zohra

Kenza Bouanika

Messaouda

Amina Medjoubi

Saïd

Lounès Tazairt

Monsieur Grand

François Morel

La Zieurond

Manuela Gourary

Sélem

Abdelkarim Chebel

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