Gone du chaâba, Le 1998

Synopsis:

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

Directed by: Christophe Ruggia
Release date: 1998-01-14
Runtime: 96 minutes
Cast:
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 
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Also known as:
  • El chico del chaâba
  • The Kid from Chaaba