
Sid Ahmed Agoumi
Oyuncu · 1940 – 2026 · Algiers, Bologhine, Algeria
Sid Ahmed Agoumi (Arabic: سيد أحمد أقومي)—born Sid Ahmed Méziane on October 5, 1940, in Bologhine (Algiers) and deceased on September 20, 2026, at the age of 86—was an Algerian actor and playwright. A major figure in Algerian theater, cinema, and television, he left his mark on over sixty years of artistic life through his intense presence and understated acting style, becoming one of the most recognizable faces of the Maghreb cultural scene. Born in the Casbah of Algiers, Sid Ahmed Méziane grew up in an environment where popular Algiers culture and French influences intersected. He attended Quranic school followed by a high school in Algiers, where he discovered classical theater and immersed himself in the dramatic speeches that would shape his craft. Drawn to the stage from an early age, he decided to become an actor at fifteen, subsequently honing his skills on stage and in front of the camera throughout the 1960s. His career officially began in the 1960s, a time when Algerian cinema and theater were seeking to assert a distinct identity following independence. Agoumi distinguished himself in both national theater and cinema, bringing equal energy to each discipline. He appeared in over fifty films and numerous television series while remaining committed to the theater, where he played memorable roles in productions such as *Les Enfants de la Casbah*, *Des Roses Rouges Pour Moi*, *Le Cadavre Encerclé*, *Hassan Terro*, and *L’Homme À La Sandale De Caoutchouc*. From 1994 onwards—following the assassination of his friend, the director Abdelkader Alloula—he settled in Paris and pursued a second theatrical career. He performed works by Alloula and Slimane Benaïssa, as well as by Luigi Pirandello, Bernard-Marie Koltès, Matei Vișniec, and David Lescot, thereby establishing an international dimension to his career. Sid Ahmed Agoumi’s best-known roles include appearances in *La Voie* (1968) by Mohamed Slim Riad, *Z* (1969) by Costa-Gavras, *Les Hors-la-loi* (1969, 1976) by Tewfik Farès, *Zone Interdite* (1972) by Ahmed Lallem, *Kahla ou Beida* (1980) by Abderrahmane Bouguermouh, *Le Moulin de Monsieur Fabre* (1984) by Ahmed Rachedi, *Il Était Une Fois Dans L’Oued* (2005), *Les Diseurs De Vérité* (2000) by Karim Traïdia, and the series *Sultan Achour 10* (2015), in which he played the role of Minister Qandil. He received the award for Best Actor for his performance in Karim Traïdia’s *Les Diseurs de Vérité*, a role that garnered critical acclaim for the precision of his acting. Throughout his career, he was frequently cited as a role model by new generations of Algerian actors. Sid Ahmed Agoumi passed away on Sunday, September 20, 2026, at the age of 86. His death sparked a wave of tributes across the country. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune described him as a "friend of great stature" and paid tribute to an artist who had "left his mark on more than 50 films and television productions." The National Office of Copyright and Neighboring Rights (ONDA) pays tribute to a "pioneer of Algerian culture," while media outlets and artists describe him as a "giant" of cinema and theater—sometimes nicknamed the "National Django" in reference to his iconic status.
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Film7.8GerilimSuçDevrimci-Sosyalist bir politikacı olan Dr.Lambrakis ,(Yves Montand)barış savunucularının gösterisinde devletin sağ kanadının organize ettiği bir suikaste kurban gider. Cinayetin hemen arkasından devlet ve ordu görevlilerinin yaptıkları tek şey, olayı örtbas etmek için gerekli delilleri ortadan kaldırmaktır. Fakat prosedür gereği açılan davaya atanan savcı, olayın derinlerine indikçe karşılaştığı akıl almaz gerçeklerle yılmadan tıpkı bir dedektif gibi araştırmasına devam eder. Ama bu araştırma sırasında karşısına çıkan engeller, devletin içinde tahmininden de derin makamlardan gelecektir. Jean-Louis Trintignant'ın bir savcıyı ve Yves Montand'ın da solcu bir partinin önde gelen temsilcilerinden birini canlandırdığı filmde barışın önemi, faşist çeteler ile hükümet içindeki güçlerin ilişkisi bağlamında derin devlet sorunsalı irdelenmektedir.
Film5.5KomediIn 1988, Johnny Leclerc, the son of a Norman mother and an Alsatian father, lives in a suburban housing estate with his friends. He behaves like a Muslim, observes Ramadan and wears a djelaba. He's even convinced that his name is Abdelbachir and that he was born in a small village in the bled. When his friend Yacine gets into trouble with a local kaid and decides to return to Algeria for the vacations, he smuggles himself into the Sabri family's luggage to fulfill his dream and finally get to know his "roots". As soon as he arrived on the Algerian coast, Johnny felt right at home. But Yacine is opposed to his father, who wants to arrange his marriage.
Film10.0DramIn an Algerian village, just before the war of independence, the inhabitants are under the thumb of a local strongman and a wealthy merchant. Among them is El Faïza, an old woman searching for her son who has escaped from prison. The gendarmes arrest El Faïza and seize the property of the villagers who haven't paid their taxes. The situation is ripe for a revolt…
Film10.0The Algerian War is seen through the eyes of a group of Algerian freedom-fighters who have been captured and incarcerated in French-run military prisons both in France and Algeria. In addition to attempts at escape, this prison drama also includes propaganda and brainwashing attempts by the French and scenes of torture. In what is possibly the most horrible torture of all, the inmates are forced to listen to broadcast speeches by General Charles de Gaulle -- speeches which illustrate the changing relations between the French and the Algerians.
Film4.0DramThis is not how the young Swiss couple imagined their desert trip: on their way to Timbuktu, they break down and are stranded in the Algerian desert of Tar. Oliver is more concerned with the broken truck than with Elena, so she explores the oasis alone. There she meets two women: a mysterious fortune teller and the young Aya. And then there is Saïd's small public telephone exchange, which connects Tar with the outside world. While Elena discovers a new world, Oliver wants to end the trip as soon as possible.
Taxiphone
2010 · 1 votes
Film6.2DramThis film deals with the aftermath of the Algerian war of liberation. Georges Montero, an Algerian-born Frenchman, manages an olive canning factory in Oran. He travels to Paris for a cataract operation. Marinette, his sister, and Belka, his friend and a recent immigrant, want him to return to France permanently. Friction develops between the two friends as Georges is pressured to sell his factory. Friendship developed between Georges and his surgeon, who as a French Arab has severed ties with his culture and country of origin.
Film5.2KomediDino Fabrizzi is the number one seller of the Maserati dealership in Nice. At 42, he arrives at a turning point in his life, the position of director is openly proposed and his companion for a year, Helen, has the firm intention to marry her. For Dino, life is great, except that this perfect life was built on a lie. Dino is actually called Mourad Ben Saoud. Neither his boss nor Helen and even less his parents are aware of this false identity. In ten days begins Ramadan and Mourad who passes every year will this time assume the promise made to his sick father. Taking part in Ramadan, For Dino - the Italian - it will not be easy.
Film10.0KomediA poor man rescues a rich man from burglars. as a way for thanking him The rich guy invite him and his family to come and live in his luxurious hotel. The poor family's life turns upside down in their new home.
Gourbi Palace
2006 · 1 votes
Film5.3DramThe life of a Middle-East family of immigrants in Europe. The father carries the heavy burden of banishment. To rescue his culture, his traditions, is mandatory, so he remains faithful to his past, his origins, to himself. His daughter is now a grown-up. He worries and wishes she would get married soon. The young woman leaves the family home every morning, but changes her clothes in a bar before she goes to work, her hair down. She puzzles the young boss of the company that employs her. He fell in love and is ready to do anything to marry her. But the young woman keeps her freedom of choice, just like her mother had done with her father. She won’t have time to introduce the only man for her to her parents. A friend of her father’s catches them. In a cafe.
Film6.0AileKomediWhen he sets foot on Algerian soil, Jamel, a French archaeologist of Algerian origin, comes to excavate the magnificent Roman ruins of the village of Timgad. The past unfolds before him, and the present catches up with him when he is thrust into the role of coach of the local soccer team, "La Juventus de Timgad." Kids juggling a meager daily existence, with no jerseys or shoes, but dribbling with talent. Between ancient ruins and the scars of recent struggles, Jamel discovers on this field the tortuous roots and young shoots of an Algeria that dreams of reconciliation...and soccer championship.
Timgad
2016 · 5 votes
Film10.0DramKomediThe story of the post-independence nationalization of the mill of Monsieur Fabre, an old man attached to the land of Algeria where he was born. In this small town in eastern Algeria, there was nothing else to nationalize and they were actively preparing for the arrival of high dignitaries who would elevate the mill to the rank of an industrial flour mill even though it was threatened with ruin. The comedy gets worse when the football player from the local team withdraws for love, the officials' visit is canceled and Mr. Fabre returns.
Film8.0DramWesternIn prison in colonial Algeria, shortly after the end of the Second World War, three indigenous cellmates make out. Once free, they attack the authority represented by the triad of the boss, the gendarme and the administrator. “Living the colonial condition,” confided Tewfik Farès, “is something! It’s not sociologically or historically speaking. It’s life. And I think that’s all there in it. [...] For a hundred and thirty years, we wait. We hold back. We push back. We hope. At the same time, on different occasions, there are skirmishes, unrest.
Film8.0DramThe 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.
Film10.0BelgeselJacqueline Gozlan - who left Algeria with her parents in 1961 - nostalgically retraces the history of the Algiers Cinematheque, inseparable from that of the country's Independence, through film extracts and numerous testimonies; notably that of one of its creators, Jean-Michel Arnold, but also of filmmakers such as Merzak Allouache and critics such as Jean Douchet. A place of life for Algerians, the Cinémathèque was the hub of African cinemas. Created in 1965 by Ahmed Hocine, Mahieddine Moussaoui and Jean-Michel Arnold, the Cinémathèque benefited from the excitement of Independence. The Cinematheque becomes a meeting place for Algiers society, future filmmakers find their best school there. In 1969, the Algiers Pan-African Festival brought together all African filmmakers, and from 1970, Boudjemâa Kareche developed a collection of Arab and African films.
Film5.4KomediDramRamdam
2020 · 5 votes
Film9.0SavaşAksiyonThe story of the film revolves around the epic of Sheikh Bouamama, a leader of the national resistance in Algeria during the French colonial era. The events are taking place in southwestern Algeria. The film also tells about different stages of the resistance, especially about one of the uprisings of the Algerian people, namely "the battle of the sons of Sidi Sheikh Bouamama", in which French General Leuti was appointed to try to suppress and end this resistance.
Film10.0DramKomediRabie 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.
Film10.0DramAn Algerian peasant (fellah), crushed by the soldiers of the French colonial army, decides to resist. His young wife finds herself, despite herself, also enlisted in the Algerian resistance to flee the atrocities of harsh colonial persecution.
La Mission
1971 · 1 votes
Film7.4BelgeselTarihThis excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is a film about death. Its most shocking sequences derive from the captured French film archives in Algeria containing - unbelievably - masses of French-shot documentary footage of their tortures, massacres and executions of Algerians. The real death of children, passers-by, resistance fighters, one after the other, becomes unbearable. Rather than be blatant propaganda, the film convinces entirely by its visual evidence, constituting an object lesson for revolutionary cinema.
Film8.5DramAlgerian journalist Sahafi is faced with a dilemma. If he returns to Algeria, he's almost certain to be assassinated. If he takes political asylum in the Netherlands, he is treated like a pariah.
Film9.5DramYears after Algeria gained independence, war continues to claim lives in Soulima, a border village surrounded by mines, whose victims are too numerous to count. Despite all these deaths, the inhabitants remain rooted in their ancestral land. Among them stands out the noble figure of Zohra, who seems to be the soul of the village...
Film10.0DramTarihHistorical film in four scenes which retrace the returns, the progress and the outcome of the war of liberation in Algeria. The first painting, “The land was thirsty” describes aspects of injustice and colonial oppression. The second “The Paths to the Prison” recounts the sufferings of the people engaged in combat. The last two are the stories of two lives.
Film6.8DramKarima, a famous photographer who has been living in Paris for several years, is forced to return to Algiers after receiving a call from her mother informing her that her tyrannical father's health is rapidly declining. This forced return reawakens the scars and ghosts of a repressed past, especially when she learns that her brother has joined an armed group.
Parfums d'Alger
2015 · 2 votes
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Dizi8.0KomediAileSultan Achour 10 or Sultan Achour (in Arabic: السّلطان عاشور العاشر, As-Sulṭān ‘Āshūr al-‘Āshir) is an Algerian humorous television series in 66 episodes of 30 minutes, created by Djaffar Gacem and broadcast between June 18 2015 and May 9, 2021 on Echorouk TV then ENTV. The events of the series take place in a kingdom of Algeria, called "the Achourite kingdom", governed by Sultan Achour 10, and relate the daily adventures of the latter with his family, his people and the other kingdoms. The series is considered the largest Algerian comedy production, and was voted the most watched program in the country during the entire month of Ramadan 2015, 2017 and 2021.