Mohamed Chouikh
Mohamed Chouikh (Arabic: محمد الشويخ), born September 3, 1943, in Mostaganem, Algeria, is an Algerian actor, screenwriter, and director. He was eleven years old in 1954 when the Algerian War began. Following the declaration of independence in 1962, he joined a theater troupe... Read full bio →
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Elise ou la vraie vie
Une jeune Bordelaise rejoint son frère à Paris. Employée dans une usine d'automobiles, elle y rencontre un jeune Algérien dont elle tombe amoureuse.
Rih al awras
The transformations of the daily life of the Algerian people during the destructive French occupation, then during the war of liberation. While military repression is in full swing, a peasant woman finds herself alone in her mountain home when her only son is kidnapped by French soldiers shortly after her husband's death during a raid.