Chafia Boudraa
Birthday: Born in 1930-04-22 in Constantine, Algeria
Deathday: 2022-05-22
Chafia Boudraa (in arabic : شافية بوذراع), real name Atika Boudraa born April 22, 1930 Constantine is an Algerian actress. She is the widow of Shahid (an FLN fighter during the war of independence, who died in combat in 1960). She left Constantine, her hometown, for Algiers in 1964. She began by working in different professions to provide for the needs of a family of eleven children: caregiver, switchboard operator, housekeeper, before contacting the RTA to work there, at stamp in several films. Chafia Boudraa will be revealed to the general public, thanks to the television series “El Hariq” (Fire) by Mustapha Badie, adapted from the novel by Mohammed Dib. She will even play the role of the widow in “The Taming of the Shrew” produced by the National Theater of Algiers. Since these beginnings, his face has stood out with talent in Algerian and international television and cinema productions. During a rich career spanning over fifty years, she also played in the film "Hors-La-Loi" by Rachid Bouchareb, which represented Algeria at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010. In this political thriller which follows destiny of three brothers torn apart by the Algerian war. She died on May 22, 2022.
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الحَرَيق
Character: Aïna
In 1939 in eastern Algeria, Omar, a young boy of ten, lives with his family in a room in Dar Sbitar, a house shared by several families who overcome the trials they go through every day to ensure their subsistence. Her deceased father is Aïni, the mother, who bleeds herself from all four veins to keep her children and their grandmother alive. The families of Dar Sbitar share their intimacy and their daily life, this life animates the big house, which itself becomes a character in its own right. ...
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Mint Tea
Character: The mother
A young Algerian in Paris has not been as successful as he claims in letters home, and when his mother unexpectedly arrives for a visit of several months, he is hard put to hide his circumstances -- and the fact that he has resorted to small-time criminal activity to support himself. His mother disembarks in her traditional attire, a warm-hearted woman who does not have a clue as to how this foreign society functions but also has absolutely no inhibitions about finding out, if the need arises. A...
Outside the Law
Character: Mother
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....
Leila and the Others
Character: Yamina, la mère de Meriem
The story of Algerian women trying to live in 1970s Algeria where the society is between conservative values and progressive modern Algeria....
Moussa's Wedding
Character: La mère de Moussa
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Echebka (الشبكة)
Character: Khalti Aldjia
Maamar (Sid Ali Kouiret), a young fisherman working in a small port in western Algeria, is forced to sell his goods at a discount every day to Si Khelifa (Abdelhalim Rais), owner of many trucks and a cannery where the wives work fishermen. He has a strange encounter. As he returns from fishing, bassinet in hand, he witnesses a car accident. Indeed, a car hits a tree with a beautiful girl “Hayat” on board who has lost consciousness. Maamar pulls her out of the car and saves her. It is at this pre...
Hassan Terro's Escape
Character:
Directed by Mustapha Badie....
Just Like a Woman
Character: La mère de Mourad
Two women get on the highway heading to Santa Fe. Marilyn dreams of winning a contest held by a famous belly dancing company, while her friend, Mona, has a darker secret....
Beur Blanc Rouge
Character: La grand-mère de Brahim
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....
A Wife for My Son
Character:
An arranged marriage as seen through the eyes of an unhappy young Algerian woman....
Profumi d'Algeri
Character:
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Le Cri des hommes
Character: La Vieille
1957, the town of Mostaganem, Algeria: the country is still under French occupation, and repression of the National Liberation Front is at its height. The authorities indulge in torture, intimidation and public executions....
Rückkehr aus der Wüste
Character:
Film by Bernhard Stephan....
Mohamed Bertrand-Duval
Character: Zohra, Fatima's mother
In this comedy, the requirements of living a respectable life grow too great for Maurice, as do the burdens of his well-paid executive position. After getting fired when a business proposal he has worked on is translated very badly to his English boss, he confides that he has lost his job to his wife. When she freaks out about that, he gets into his camper and heads south. There, a group of wandering Arab thieves rob him of everything he has of value but then admit him into their circle, calling...
Kahla wa Bayda
Character: Mother
Rabie is a kid from Sétif in 1980, trying to collect money to buy a wheelchair for his paralyzid sister Sassia, so she can get out of the house....