Smaïn
Birthday: Born in 1958-01-03 in Constantine, France [now Algeria]
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Camping paradis
Character: Christian Dissaut
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Salut les Terriens !
Character: Self - Guest
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Le Théâtre de Bouvard
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Victoires de la musique
Character: Self
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La Parenthèse inattendue
Character: Self
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À votre service
Character: L'huissier
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Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Character: Self
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Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
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Commissariat Bastille
Character: Capitaine Mo Loumani
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Mask Singer
Character: Monstre
Twelve celebrities are masked under spectacular costumes, with their identity hidden. They compete by singing their own versions of songs, and the judges and audience must guess who is behind each mask!...
Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
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Sacrée soirée
Character: Self
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La France a un incroyable Talent
Character: Self - Judge
La France a un incroyable talent, previously known as Incroyable Talent is a French television programme, based on the Got Talent series. It debuted on M6 on 2 November 2006, presented by Alessandra Sublet....
Movie Credits
Placés
Character: Père d'Elias
Because he forgot his identity card, Elias cannot take the entrance exam to Sciences Po. In search of a job while waiting to be able to take the exam again, he becomes an educator in a children's home. Confronted with an environment he doesn't know how to work, Elias doesn't yet know how much this experience will change his life....
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
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Le Schpountz
Character: Irénée
Irénée has no desire to work in his uncle's grocery shop and dreams of becoming an actor. His opportunity comes when a crew of movie makers came to his little village. Irénée begins to go over the top in order to be noticed, which earns him the traditional joke reserved to a "Schpountz" (naive person): a phoney contract and a departure for Paris....
Fernandel, l'homme au sourire
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Don't Worry, Be Happy
Character: Self
With his vitriolic pen, Désiré Loncle, does not make the life of filmmakers easy. But chickens come home to roost, don't they? As a matter of fact, Désiré gets his due punishment when Manu, his girlfriend, kicks him out of home. At a loss, he finds refuge with Alex, a young actor. He is soon joined by Eduardo, an Italian producer, dumped like him by his wife. While Désiré tries to rebuild himself, the three men decide to write a film script that will be the basis of a vehicle for Alex....
Le Carnaval des animaux
Character: Le père
Every night, a father tells his son a bedtime story. As if by challenge, the child always chooses the same book, with scores, orchestra photos and images of animals. It’s about Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Carnival of the Animals”. Under the impetus of the gentle complicity of father and son, this somewhat austere book is transformed, comes to life and makes music: the carnival animals come to life......
One Can Always Dream
Character: Rachid Merzahoui
A billionaire Charles de Boisleve becomes a friend of a petty criminal Rachid after two of them meet in the supermarket....
The Car Keys
Character: Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner......
L'Œil au beur(re) noir
Character: Rachid
Denis and Rachid, a black and an Algerian, are looking for an apartment in Paris. Both meet Virginie, whocould rent them the vacant apartment of her stepfather, but she'd rather rent to some low-lifes than to a black or an Algerian....
The Telephone Always Rings Twice
Character: Momo
Marc Elbichon, a novice private sleuth, is investigating a wave of assassinations bearing a particular characteristic: the perpetrator, dubbed the "telephone killer" always strangles his female victims with a telephone cord....
Two Dads and One Mom
Character: Salim
Jérôme and Delphine want a child but Jerome is sterile. They then ask the best friend of Jerome, Salim, to be the donor for artificial insemination of the mother......
Harkis
Character: Saïd
1972, in the south of France, deep in the forest, a family with meager luggage discovers the new camp where they will live. Despite the camp leader's overt paternalism, the Harkis lead a difficult life without real freedom. A life of poverty and guardianship that Leila, the Benamars' eldest daughter, rejects. She is at the age of rebellion, and also of her first love. For her, her father, Saïd, scarred by war and exile, accustomed to giving in, owes nothing to the French who enlisted him in the ...
Recto/Verso
Character: Fred
Riddled with debts after having been unfairly fired from his job, a star TV presenter—and inveterate womanizer—passes as a homosexual in order to get a job on a gay TV channel. While some people use the casting couch to succeed, he is determined to succeed without the couch. That's why he decides to present his cousin, a rather naive karaoke fan, as his boyfriend....
The Big Brother
Character: Abdel
The plot in this story weaves around like a New Year's reveler at four in the morning, heading first in one direction and then in another, with the intention of going home if things would just stop moving. Bernard (Gerard Depardieu) is a doctor whose Hippocratic oath was a hypocritic failure -- the not-so-good doctor kills his wife because she is having an affair, and he kills her lover too. Then he joins the French Foreign Legion. On his way to the former French colonies in Africa, the plane he...
Poor Richard!
Character: Farid
It is in a small popular district that the pot of the Eurogagnant, 124 million euros, is won - But who is the lucky winner?...
J'aurais jamais dû croiser son regard...
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In this romantic thriller, Zoe (Nathalie Cardone), a girl who has gotten into serious trouble, finds an ally and protector in Bambi (Smain), a juvenile delinquent who has fallen in love with her....
Un p’tit gars de Ménilmontant
Character: Maklouf
A man leaves prison after a 15-year sentence and returns to his home district to find that it has changed completely, almost beyond recognition. He will find it hard to adjust to a world that is governed by a totally different set of rules......
The Bag of Flour
Character: Sarah's Father
Based on a true story, this beautifully-shot epic traces the life of Sarah, from her early years in a Catholic orphanage in 1970s Belgium, through her rebellious, poverty-stricken teens in a village in the Atlas mountains of Morocco....
Dorothée : Le Show
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Mosaïque
Character: Self
Broadcast from 1977 to 1987 on FR3, every Sunday morning, for 1h30, Mosaïque is a variety show with a set where music groups from the countries of origin of immigration perform, and which broadcasts reports on these countries and on immigrants who live in France. When it was created, it aimed to promote the cultures of origin of immigrants, but also to make them better known to the rest of the population. However, the program was never financed by public television which considers that it was ai...
For the Love of God
Character: Kevin's Father
Kévin-Mohamed is a young high school student from an integrated and secular family. He befriends a girl from a strict religious family and falls in love with her...
Bingo!
Character: Vincent
Vincent, a great connoisseur of racing and poker, and therefore in debt, lives in a hotel, as does André who is writing his first novel. Vincent's lenders are getting more and more urgent. To repay he must participate in a big game....
La Nuit du rire II à l'Olympia
Character: Self
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Once Upon a Time in Algeria
Character: Doctor Farès
The childhood of the movie director Antoine Lisner, who left Algeria in 1962. In order to present his new movie, he comes back to Algiers with his son....
Tom est tout seul
Character: Street musician
After his fiancée leaves him, Tom finds himself alone and helpless. He has to wash his clothes himself and so goes to the laundromat. There, he meets a quaint tribe and opens up to a new world and incredible horizons....
Old School
Character: M. Fonblard
In this mock documentary, television journalist Christie and her camera crew trace the history and nefarious exploits of the new terrors of the French criminal underworld. The "Old School" Gang are four young men who grew up in the same orphanage; led by Letiole, they affect outlandish mid-'70s fashions and a retro-gangster/neo-blaxploitation persona as they rob, loot, and shoot their way through the seamy underbelly of Paris....
Le Passager du Tassili
Character: Fefer
Omar, a young Franco-Algerian from La Garenne-Colombes, decided to spend his vacation in the country of his ancestors, Algeria. On his return, he boards the ferry “Le Tassili” and during the crossing, he meets people who share his doubles, in a good mood that does not hide their heartbreaks....
Certifiée Halal
Character: Aziz Boukamache
In the Maghreb, Hajj Achour's plans for his daughter Sultana's marriage unravel when a defective dowry takes center stage. Meanwhile, in France, activism meets family tradition as Kenza confronts gender norms, leading to a chaotic wedding where secrets collide....
Charité biz'ness
Character: Sam
Two friends organize a fake solidarity concert in order to seize the recipe. But their amateurism leads to many misunderstandings....
Smaïn - Mon dernier avant le prochain
Character: Smaïn
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Te marre pas... c'est pour rire !
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A young astrology enthusiast inherits an industrial business. Before any decision, he carefully studies the sign of his interlocutors....
Gates of the Sun
Character: Slimane
An Algerian secret agent has to destroy an undercover paramilitary organization that plans to strike against the country and its people....
Three Lives and Only One Death
Character: Luca
Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers who inherit a chateau – and the last tale that connects all that has gone before....
Tomboy
Character: Amrani
One morning Noureddine, who always considered himself a little boy, discovers that his mother Fatima lied to him for 11 years and, in fact, he is a girl....
The Joint Brothers
Character: Le jeune homme du train
After he is dismissed from his umpteenth job, Momo is kicked out of the family home by his fed-up father. He immediately joins his buddy Manu, who is also penniless having just lost his job at a cafeteria. The two decide to ask shady nightclub owner Sammy for a job, and he promptly hires them to transport back two statuettes from Amsterdam. Momo and Manu soon find out that these art objects are stuffed with drugs, but still manage to carry out their mission. They receive one kilo of grass in ex...
Les Chômeurs en folie
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André and Lucien, two unemployed men with a taste for petty thefts, get embarked on a film project involving Anatole, a young count who lends his castle and his antique camera. But soon problems arise......
Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur
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Les 60 ans du one-man-show
Character: Self (archive footage)
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Les Enfoirés 1995 - Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra-Comique
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Show recorded at the Opéra Comique in Paris on March 6, 1995 for the benefit of the Restos du Coeur....
Les Enfoirés 1992 - La Soirée des Enfoirés à l'Opéra
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Show recorded on January 9, 1992 at the Opéra Garnier in Paris for the benefit of the Restos du Coeur....
Les Enfoirés 1993 - Les Enfoirés chantent Starmania
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Show recorded on February 26, 1993 at the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris for the benefit of the Restos du Coeur....
Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés
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La Smala
Character: Le jeune maghrébin de la bagarre
When the mother of a "tribe" of five children leaves for good, their inept father is not sure how to keep the family clothed and fed, and without the help of his neighbor Simone, he would be nowhere. She is attracted to him but eventually gives up on the relationship. Meanwhile, the father grabs his brood and they take off for Paris in search of the wife. But Simone accidentally ends up on the same train......
The Imaginary Doctor
Character: Inspecteur Bachir
Alex, aka DJ Wethu, is a star of the night world. On the verge of burnout, he plays concerts all over the world... Until the day when, in the middle of a festival in Morocco, Alex takes a bad fall and falls off the stage. Immobilized on the spot during his convalescence, he is placed under the vigilance of Abdel, who dreams of becoming an assistant nurse. The problem is that he is not quite! An unexpected encounter, to say the least......
Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés
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Wacko
Character: Jimmy
An anthology movie comprising four weird stories. Like the Twilight Zone movie but strictly played for laughs. There’s a bit of everything, car explosions, french debauchery, serial-killers, crazy broads, silly humor and naughty language…...