Allouache's second feature echoes the self-assurance of Omar Gatlano, and again takes a wry look, this time at political gullibility among Algerian peasants in a changing culture. A poor tribe selects a charismatic young man to be the savior who will lift the peasants from their wretched conditions. To be on the safe side, they educate him in everything from Nietszche to Che Guevara; thus armed, the would-be superman embarks on a series of misadventures that illustrate the limits of revolutionary romanticism in curing the ills of rural society. Sensitive to Western perceptions of the picturesque, Allouache cast The Adventures of a Hero in the mold of a folk fable but eschewed the "folkloric" look-colorful garb, dramatic shots of the desert-"so that my film in ten, twenty years' time would be remembered for its moral tale and not its beauty."