Movie: The Kid from Chaaba

Top 10 Billed Cast

Bouzid Negnoug
Bouzid Negnoug

Omar

Mohamed Fellag
Mohamed Fellag

Bouzid

Nabil Ghalem
Nabil Ghalem

Hacène

Galamelah Lagra
Galamelah Lagra

Farid

Kenza Bouanika
Kenza Bouanika

Zohra

Amina Medjoubi
Amina Medjoubi

Messaouda

Lounès Tazairt
Lounès Tazairt

Saïd

François Morel
François Morel

Monsieur Grand

Manuela Gourary
Manuela Gourary

La Zieurond

Abdelkarim Chebel
Abdelkarim Chebel

Sélem

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    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

  • Release Date

    1998-01-14

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    Françaisالعربية
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