Larbi Zekkal
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 19, 1934
Deathday: September 17, 2010
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Moussa's Wedding
1982-01-01
Moussa's Wedding
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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From Hollywood to Tamanrasset
1990-07-25
From Hollywood to Tamanrasset
Overview: On the outskirts of Algiers, Algeria. the arrival of the satellite dishes governs the lives of the inhabitants. Dissatisfied with their lives, they think of themselves as the heroes of American soap opera and movies, so JR, Sue Ellen, Rambo, Kojak, Spock and others take possession of bodies and minds, with many typical American culture elements. These heroes mix in a beautiful funny mess, with tradition and modernism, Islam and television, reality and fiction.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-07-25
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Autumn, October In Algiers
1993-01-02
Autumn, October In Algiers
Overview: The story of a family in the instability and violence that shook Algeria during the riots of October 1988 in the midst of the rise of fundamentalism and intolerance, disappointments and prohibitions, corruption, nepotism and abuse of power. On October 5, 1988, young Algerians occupied the streets... Afterwards, Algeria would plunge into the chaos of the Black Decade which would last more than ten years and leave more than 150,000 dead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-01-02
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Wind from the South
1975-01-02
Wind from the South
Overview: Néfissa, a student in Algiers, returns to her village in the south in the summer. Her father wants her to marry the mayor but she wants to continue her studies. Confronting her father and the opinion of the villagers who do not understand her, she decides to flee to Algiers. The shepherd Rabah discovering her wounded and lost in the mountains, has her treated by her mother. In contact with Nefissa, Rabat becomes aware of his exploited condition and discovers the possibilities offered to him by the cooperatives of the agrarian revolution. The two young people will go through the decisive stage together which will allow them to escape obscurantism and exploitation. Based on the novel "Le vent du sud" by Abdelhamid Benahouga
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1975-01-02
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Si Mohand u M'hand, l'insoumis
2008-09-10
Si Mohand u M'hand, l'insoumis
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2008-09-10
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Harvest of Steel
1983-07-01
Harvest of Steel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1983-07-01
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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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Beur Blanc Rouge
2006-05-17
Beur Blanc Rouge
Overview: Le match France - Algérie vient chambouler le train-train de Brahim et Mouloud. Cet évènement va diviser les deux amis : Brahim revendique son identité algérienne, Mouloud fustige son refus de la France, pays qui les a vu grandir.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-05-17
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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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Outside the Law
2010-09-21
Outside the Law
Overview: After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-09-21
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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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The Honour of the Tribe
1993-01-02
The Honour of the Tribe
Overview: Like every year in Zitouna, a bear handler passes by. With his creature, he comes to challenge the small community. And like every year, it is Slimane El Mabrouk who defends the honor of the tribe. But this time, he dies, leaving two orphans, Omar and Ourida. Robbed of their inheritance, the children will grow up alone. The years pass, the French army settles in, and with it, the war. Mysteriously, one day, after the murder of a French legionnaire, Omar disappears into the bush, while his sister dies in childbirth. Omar will return to the village, much later, once independence has been acquired, as a representative of power and with this enigmatic formula: "You must know that the Revolution has not forgotten you". Personal revenge? Sincere desire to bring progress and modernity? ... The inhabitants of Zitouna, upset in their ancestral way of life, will not be long in having an answer to their questions.
Genres: Drama Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-01-02
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