Rouiched
Biography: Ahmed Ayad (April 28, 1921 - January 20, 1999), was an Algerian actor and comedian born in Algiers, to a father from Aït Djennad in the wilaya of Tizi Ouzou and a mother from Blida. He is the half-brother of singer Hadj Mrizek. During childhood, Rouiched did a thousand small jobs to survive. Self-taught, he obtained his first role in a play by Abdelhamid Ababsa entitled “Estardjâ Yâ Assi” (Come back to you O unconscious). His interpretation saves the piece from flopping. He then launched into the profession and became the leader of an artistic troupe. He rubbed shoulders with the big names of the time: Rachid Ksentini, Mustapha Badie, Nadjat Tounsi, Sid-Ali Fernandel, Mohamed Touri, Mustapha Kateb… His conception of art and theater earned him the grievances of Mahieddine Bachetarzi. After independence, he was part of the Algerian National Theater troupe, but won recognition on television and in cinema in the film "Hassen Terro" by Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina. Rouiched, who became a very great figure in Algerian comedy theater and cinema, continued his career on Algerian Television where he played in numerous sketches and television films until his death in 1999.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 28, 1921
Deathday: January 28, 1999
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Hassan Terro au Maquis
1978-01-01
Hassan Terro au Maquis
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Genres: Family War Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Hassan Taxi
1982-05-19
Hassan Taxi
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1982-05-19
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Hassan Terro's Escape
1974-01-02
Hassan Terro's Escape
Overview: Directed by Mustapha Badie.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1974-01-02
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Sons of the Earth
1991-01-01
Sons of the Earth
Overview: "Hijos de la tierra" presents a drama set a little before the 1920s, in which scattered news, stories and rumors spread the presence of a new wealth, oil, leading to the suspicion that a great change was about to take place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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El Ghoula
1972-01-02
El Ghoula
Overview: Directed by Mustapha Kateb.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1972-01-02
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Hassan Niya
1989-01-02
Hassan Niya
Overview: The story of Hassan, the handyman in the inn of his sister Aïcha, widowed and childless. A whole series of incidents, misunderstandings, will punctuate his daily routine in which we find him in turn driver, waiter, welder, etc. But, he refuses to submit to anything that does not conform to the idea he has of society and things...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1989-01-02
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Hassan Terro
1967-01-02
Hassan Terro
Overview: While he tries by all means to stay out of the bloody upheavals caused by the battle of Algiers, Hassan, an honest and naive father, unknowingly offers hospitality to a mujahid actively sought by the army. French. A series of events and misunderstandings quickly catapult him to the forefront, presenting him under the pseudonym “Hassan Terro”, a great fictitious terrorist who would have sworn the doom of the French army...
Genres: Adventure War Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1967-01-02
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The Battle of Algiers
1966-09-08
The Battle of Algiers
Overview: Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in 1957. The film traces the rebels' struggle and the increasingly extreme measures taken by the French government to quell the revolt.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-09-08
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L'Histoire Du Film "La Bataille D'Alger"
2018-01-01
L'Histoire Du Film "La Bataille D'Alger"
Overview: More than fifty years after the release of the film “The Battle of Algiers” in theaters in June 1966, director Salim Aggar found, after a search which lasted more than a year and a half, the actors, extras and technicians who worked on the film directed by Gillo Pentecorvo and produced by Yacef Saadi. In this documentary full of anecdotes and stories about the filming of the film, the director found the actress who played the role of Hassiba Ben Bouali, the young 17-year-old actress who played Bouhamidi's bride but especially certain figures important parts of the film who were barely 10 years old at the time of filming and who no one will recognize today. Beyond the important historical aspect of the film, the documentary focused mainly on the social, cinematographic and cultural aspect of the film and its impact on a generation which had just regained independence.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-01-01
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Opium and the Stick
1970-09-14
Opium and the Stick
Overview: In 1950, in Algeria, in a village in Kabylia, Algerian resistance fighters resisted the French occupation army. Bachir returns to the village to escape the clashes ravaging Algiers. In Thala, he has two brothers, Ali and Belaïd. The first is engaged with the ALN (The National Liberation Army) and fights against the colonizer. His second brother, Belaïd, the eldest, is convinced of a French Algeria. His family torn apart, Bachir decides to join the war and takes sides against the repression of the French army. The French army is trying in vain to turn the population against the insurgents by using disinformation. The more time passes, the more the inhabitants of the village and surrounding areas, oppressed, rally to the cause of the FLN, their houses and their fields will be burned... Adaptation to the cinema of the eponymous novel Opium and the Stick, published in 1965, by Mouloud Mammeri, the film was dubbed into Tamazight (Berber), a first for Algerian cinema.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-09-14
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Reveries of the Solitary Actor
2016-02-08
Reveries of the Solitary Actor
Overview: Adar, an old actor who loves both theater and cinema. Its character portrays a play about a shoemaker whose dream is to create a political party, the Nail Party, in order to represent the common people in the presidential election in Algeria. It is a story of absence, memories of absence.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2016-02-08
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The Unexpected Party
1953-01-01
The Unexpected Party
Overview: This musical comedy produced in 1953 for the General Government of Algeria, features the comic trio composed of Rouiched, Mohamed Touri and Sid Ali Fernandel, accompanied by the orchestra of the master of the Algiers Chaâbi El Hadj M'hamed El Anka, the singer Fadhéla Dziria, Mustapha Skandrani on the piano. Some scenes were filmed at the Summer Palace (the current Palace of the Algerian Presidency, called the People's Palace). André Zwobada, the director, will play an important role after the independence of Algeria in 1962, in the production and preservation of the first Algerian newsreels.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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