Fawzi B. Saichi
Birthday: Born in 1951-04-09 in Aïn Sefra, Algeria
Deathday: Alive
Fawzi B. Saichi (in arabic : فوزي بسايشي), born April 9, 1951 in Aïn Sefra Algeria, is an Algerian actor. He is nicknamed "Rmimez" after his character in Djamel Bendeddouche's film "The Adventures of Rmimez" in 1986. Fawzi has lived in Algiers since the age of 6, and made his first appearance in the cinema in the film “Leïla et les Autres” by Sid Ali Mazif, in 1977. With the film by Rabah Laradji, written by Rachid Benallal, “Un Toit Et Une Famille”, released in 1982, he was awarded the prize for best male performance at the Carthage Cinematographic Days, in Tunisia. In 1986, Djamel Bendeddouche directed "Les Aventures de Rmimez (مغامرات رميمز)" a musical film starring Ouardia Hamitouche and Faouzi Saichi who performs "Rmimez" in a succession of clips, between dream and reality, meeting different actors . of the young Algerian music scene of the mid-1980s. "Rmimez", will become the nickname that will follow him throughout his career. An essential actor in Algerian cinema, he is also sought after by foreign filmmakers and will go on to produce more than twenty productions for television and cinema, including “Les Folles Années Du Twist” (1986), “De Hollywood à Tamanrasset” (1991). ), “Beur Blanc Rouge” (2006) by Mahmoud Zemmouri, La Route d’Istanbul by Rachid Bouchareb (2016), etc. In 2015, a tribute was paid to him in his presence and those of many figures of Algerian cinema at the Kateb Yacine regional theater in Tizi-ouzou.
TV Credits
Nass Mlah City
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Nass Mlah City is a 2002-2006 Algeria comedy TV series directed by Djafar Gacem and broadcast by ENTV. It first aired in Algeria on 6 November 2002 and has since produced well over 52 episodes....
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Dêmokratia
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Face to the firing squad a dictator is awaiting death. As the soldiers shoulder their rifles, the man remembers. He recalls with wicked jubilation his devouring ambition, his complete absence of scruples, his brutal lack of humanity, his taste for manipulation, the cowardice of his entourage, his ambiguous relationships with a woman named Dêmokratia....
White Lies
Character: Epicier
Believing she comes from a wealthy family, thugs kidnap a young woman hired as an au pair in Paris....
Les Folles Années du Twist
Character: Salah
A small town in Algeria, in the years 1960-1962. Two young idle boys and rock fans, Boualem and Salah, try to survive in the turmoil of war, taking great care not to get involved....
Autumn, October In Algiers
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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....
Cheb
Character: Garçon du hammam
After a conviction for theft, Merwan was expelled from France, where he had lived since the age of one, to Algeria, his country of birth. In a foreign country of which he knows neither the language nor the customs, he finds himself stripped of his belongings and on the street....
Beur Blanc Rouge
Character: Aziz
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....
One Roof, One Family
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Selim Mechoubine, a young man of 28, is the eldest of a large family. In the cramped accommodation he shares with his parents, brothers and sisters... he occupies the kitchen, the refuge of his dreams and his many fantasies. Selim, the court clerk where divorcing couples parade..., wants to get married. His mother finds him “the rare pearl”. But now, the bride's family demands that the couple have their own home... Selim's misadventure begins; he finds himself confronted with the problems of the...
Après la pluie, le beau temps
Character: The hunchback
Rose Bonbon, a small singer of light variety with a naughty and colorful imagination, is in the glue with Roger, a characterful brute who thinks he is a manager. Between shabby hotels and cheap restaurants, she meets the handsome Dubel, an impresario on the sidelines. He hires Rose at the drop of a hat because he has to replace Hermine Zibeline for a tour in the Paris region with the famous Billie Boys from Broadway....
Lumières
Character: Patron Pressing
Long quest for a director specializing in commissioned films, who after a depression rediscovers his loved ones, his Casbah district, himself. Taken in hand, for a while, by his Islamist neighbor, it is above all the meeting with an old projectionist giving him a censored history of cinema and Algeria, which helps him to change, and to accept his own fantasies, embodied by Marilyn Monroe and the Andalusian....
Road to Istanbul
Character: Rabatteur
Elisabeth lives a quiet live in the Belgian countryside with her young adult daughter Elodie. After the divorce from her husband Elisabeth took care of her daughter on her own. When Elodie disappears over night and Elisabeth discovers that she travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State, she begins her journey to find her daughter....
Elli Fat Mat
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27 years after 1962, Antoine returns to Algiers......
Leila and the Others
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The story of Algerian women trying to live in 1970s Algeria where the society is between conservative values and progressive modern Algeria....
Viva Algeria
Character: Le Planton du cadastre
This movie portrays three women living in today's Algeria between modern society and Islamic fundamentalism, self-determination and dependence. Goucem, a young woman who works for a photographer and mistress of a rich doctor, her mother Papicha, a former cabaret star, and her best friend Fifi, a prostitute, all live in a hotel in the city center of Algiers. Their difficult personal situation and the growing influence of Islam lead to dramatic consequences......
Mista
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Chouchou
Character: Le voiturier du salon de thé
Choukri, alias Chouchou, a transvestite Maghrebi with clear eyes, comes illegally to Paris to find his nephew. Hired as an assistant by a psychotherapist, known for his good mood, he also work as a waiter in a transvestite cabaret of Clichy where he meets Stanislas....
From Hollywood to Tamanrasset
Character: Rambo
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....
Frontières
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Seven Africans, one woman and six men, decide to enter Europe clandestinely to start a new life. Together, they face dangers and obstacles, but as they get closer to Tangiers, the last stop before they reach Spain and "liberty", their inter-group solidarity starts to fall apart....
The Honour of the Tribe
Character: Le joueur de Bonneteau
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...