Hassan Kachach
Birthday: Born in in Constantine, Algeria
Deathday: Alive
Hassan Kachach (Arabic: حسن كشاش), born in Constantine, is an Algerian actor and doctor. He is known for his role as Mostefa Ben Boulaïd in the film Mostefa Ben Boulaïd, as well as in the television series El Khawa (الخاوة). In 2019, he played the role of Taher (الطاهر) in the Tunisian-Algerian series Machā`ir (مشاعر). Hassan Kachach studied medicine and practiced for a while before director Ahmed Rachedi offered him a role in his film C'était la guerre. He replied: "There is a common denominator between medicine and representation: the first deals with the soul and the spirit, and the second deals with the soul, the spirit and the common cause: the human being. » The director laughed and accepted his participation in the film. Then, he worked with director Mohamed Chouikh in the film The Ark of the Desert in 1997. Hassan Kachach has become one of the cinematic faces that have influenced the Algerian public in recent times. He became known to the Algerian public in the film, Mostefa Ben Boulaïd, as well as in several works in cinema and television. He starred in the Tunisian-Algerian film The Wounded Palms in 2010, directed by Tunisian filmmaker Abdellatif Ben Ammar, but also in the series Aïssat Idir.
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Les Sauvages
Character: Dcocteur Nabil Arab
On the verge of an historic election victory, an Arabic candidate for the French presidency sees his ambitions threatened by a perfect storm of religious, cultural, and family politics....
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Lotfi
Character: Farhat Abbas
The film relates the career of Colonel Lotfi, whose real name is Benali Boudghene, since his beginnings as an activist in Tlemcen where, with his classmates from high school, he posted the call of 1 November 1954, addressed by National Liberation Front (FLN) to the Algerian people....
Les Sept Remparts De La Citadelle
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The feature film “The seven ramparts of the citadel”, a fiction recounting the conflict between an Algerian family expropriated from its land and a bloodthirsty settler; by director Ahmed Rachedi. Adapted from the eponymous novel by Mohamed Maarafia, the film, whose plot begins in 1954, tells the story of two characters, Thebti and Lucien, “the fellaga and the colonist”, a story of crossed destinies. “After having engaged in a fight to the death, after having both traveled a long path of embers,...
Mostefa Ben Boulaïd
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The film revolves around the life of the martyr Mustapha Ben Bouleid (1917-1956), who was a member of the Algerian National Movement, who worked with his comrades to explain the idea of the armed revolution in which he led in Aures region in 1954. The film depicts how Ben Bouleid traveled to a number of Arab countries Disguised to bring arms to Algeria for the revolution and how the French colonial forces arrested him in the Tunisian-Libyan border, and from there to Algeria to be sentenced to de...
Elle Nous Regarde
Character: Youcef
Rayan, a young French boxer of Algerian origin, loses his mother. As tradition dictates, he must accompany his remains to his native country. There, he meets his family for the first time, managed in a patriarchal manner by his uncle. Through the discussions, Rayan understands that there is a serious family conflict. For him, a new fight begins....
Until The Birds Return
Character: Dahman
Algeria today. Past and present collide in the lives of a newly wealthy property developer, a young woman torn between the path of reason and sentiment and an ambitious neurologist impeded by wartime wrongdoings. Three stories that plunge us into the human soul of a contemporary Arab society....
Les Palmiers Blessés
Character: Noureddine
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The Desert Ark
Character: Uncle
The Desert Ark (L'Arche du Desert), a variation on Romeo and Juliet set in the Algerian desert. A young couple must face inevitable conflict when their rival families discover their secret love. Taking refuge in a cave, they listen to the sounds of a senseless campaign of violence and murder, which is the culmination of the extremism that has long divided their two communities. Nominated for the Golden Leopard at the 1997 Locarno Film Festival....
Chronicles of my Village
Character: Saddek
In 1960, nine-year-old Bachir dreamed of becoming the son of a martyr because he had heard that the children of martyrs would obtain everything after independence. He sets up a whole plan to get rid of a certain François, enemy of his country, while his father, Saddek, abandoned him with his mother and brothers. Through this fiction, the film looks at the life and visions of little Algerians during the War of National Liberation. Karim Traïdia looks back on his own childhood during the Algerian ...