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Bab El-Oued City
''Bab El-Oued City'' is a 1994 Algerian drama film directed by Merzak Allouache. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Award. Plot Boualem is a baker's boy who works early mornings and sleeps during the day. One day, the imam's prayer is boosted to full volume through Bab El-Oued's loud speakers, leading Boualem to tear out one of those speakers and throw it in the sea. The Islamic authorities of the city launch a manhunt for the perpetrator. Cast * Nadia Kaci - Yamina * Mohamed Ourdache - Said * Hassan Abidou - Boualem * Mabrouk Ait Amara - Mabrouk * Messaoud Hattau - Mess * Mourad Khen - Rachid * - Lalla Djamila * Simone Vignote - The aunt * Michel Such - Paulo Gosen * Nadia Samir - Ouardya * Areski Nebti - Hassan the baker * Osmane Bechikh - The postman * Fawzi B. Saichi - The shoemender * Fatma Zohra Bouseboua - Hanifa * Ahmed Benaissa Ahmed Benaissa (2 March 1944 – 20 May 2022) was an ...
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Merzak Allouache
Merzak Allouache (born 6 October 1944) is an Algerian film director and screenwriter. His 1976 film ''Omar Gatlato'' was later entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize. His 1996 ''Salut cousin!'' was submitted to the 69th Academy Awards in the category of Best Foreign Language Film. He is one of the most influential Algerian filmmakers, considered by some to be the most important.  He is the only Algerian filmmaker who devoted most, if not all, of his cinematic work to his native country. Early life Merzak Allouache was born in the Algiers neighborhood of Bab el-Oued. His father was a Kabyle Berber postal worker and his mother was an Algerian housewife from Casbah.  Allouache was only ten years old when the Algerian Liberation War began in 1954 and he was only eighteen during the year of independence in 1962. Career Studies Merzak Allouache began his studies in 1964 at the Institute for Cinema in Algiers. While there, he ...
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Nadia Samir
Nadia is a female name. Variations include Nadja, Nadya, Nadine, Nadiya, and Nadiia. Most variations of the name are derived from Arabic, Slavic languages, or both. In Slavic, names similar to ''Nadia'' mean "hope" in many Slavic languages: Ukrainian ''Nadiya'' (Надія, accent on the ''i''), Belarusian ''Nadzieja'' (Надзея, accent on the ''e''), and Old Polish ''Nadzieja'', all of which are derived from Proto-Slavic ''*naděja'', the first three from Old East Slavic. In Bulgarian and Russian, on the other hand, Nadia or Nadya (Надя, accent on first syllable) is the diminutive form of the full name Nadyezhda (Надежда), meaning "hope" and derived from Old Church Slavonic, which it entered as a translation of the Greek word ''ἐλπίς'' ( Elpis), with the same meaning. In Arabic, the name is ''Nadiyyah'', meaning "tender" and "delicate." In the Dan language, the word ''Nãdienã'' simply means "girl". Notable people with the name Nadia include: People A ...
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Films Directed By Merzak Allouache
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ...
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1994 Drama Films
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1990s Arabic-language Films
Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 ''Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Mesopotamia is partitioned into two Roman provinces divided by the Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Osroene. * Emperor Septimius Severus lays siege to the city-state Hatra in Central-Mesopotamia, but fails to capture the city despite breaching the walls. * Two new legions, I Parthica and III Parthica, are formed as a permanent garrison. China * Battle of Yijing: Chinese warlord Yuan Shao defeats Gongsun Zan. Korea * Geodeung succeeds Suro of Geumgwan Gaya, as king of the Korean kingdom of Gaya (traditional date). By topic Religion * Pope Zephyrinus succeeds Pope Victor I, as the ...
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1994 Films
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson Mandela casts his vote in the 1994 South African general election, in which he was elected South Africa's first president, and which effectively brought Apartheid to an end; NAFTA, which was signed in 1992, comes into effect in Canada, the United States, and Mexico; The first passenger rail service to utilize the newly-opened Channel tunnel; The 1994 FIFA World Cup is held in the United States; Skulls from the Rwandan genocide, in which over half a million Tutsi people were massacred by Hutus., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 1994 Winter Olympics rect 200 0 400 200 Northridge earthquake rect 400 0 600 200 Sinking of the MS Estonia rect 0 200 300 400 Rwandan genocide rect 300 200 600 400 Nelson Mandela rect 0 400 200 600 1994 FIFA ...
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Ahmed Benaissa
Ahmed Benaissa (2 March 1944 – 20 May 2022) was an Algerian actor, best known for the roles in the critically acclaimed films ''Étoile aux dents ou Poulou le magnifique'', ''Gates of the Sun'', and ''Close Enemies''. Personal life He was born in Algeria in a family of five girls and four boys. His father was an activist who was arrested and imprisoned in Algeria. However he was then released after Algerian Independence. He later moved to Paris, France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac .... He lived for almost 18 years in France. During this period, he received training at the National Theater School. He was married and was a father of two boys. Career In 1971, Benaïssa started his cinema career with the film ''Étoile aux dents ou Poulou le magnifique'' directed ...
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Fatma Zohra Bouseboua
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Fawzi B
Fawzi, Faouzi, Fawzy or Fevzi (in Arabic فوزي) is an Arabic and Turkish name and surname meaning "triumph". Notable people with the name include: Given name Fawzi *Ali Fawzi Rebaine (born 1955), the leader of the Ahd 54 political party in Algeria *Fawzi Al Shammari (born 1979), Kuwaiti athlete who competes in the 200 and 400 metres *Fawzi al-Ghazzi (1891–1929), Syrian politician known for being the father of the Syrian constitution *Fawzi al-Mulki (1910–1962), Jordanian diplomat and politician *Fawzi al-Qawuqji (1890–1977), the field commander of the Arab Liberation Army during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War *Fawzi Bashir Doorbeen (born 1984), Omani football midfielder *Fawzi Fayez (born 1987), Emirati footballer *Fawzi Hariri (born 1958 Arbil, Iraq), Iraq's Minister of Industry and Minerals *Fawzi Moussouni (born 1972), Algerian international football player *Fawzi Salloukh, the current Foreign Minister of Lebanon *Fawzi Selu (1905–1972), Syrian military leader, politic ...
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Michel Such
Michel may refer to: * Michel (name), a given name or surname of French origin (and list of people with the name) * Míchel (nickname), a nickname (a list of people with the nickname, mainly Spanish footballers) * Míchel (footballer, born 1963), Spanish former footballer and manager * ''Michel'' (TV series), a Korean animated series * German auxiliary cruiser ''Michel'' * Michel catalog, a German-language stamp catalog * St. Michael's Church, Hamburg or Michel * S:t Michel, a Finnish town in Southern Savonia, Finland People * Alain Michel (other), several people * Ambroise Michel (born 1982), French actor, director and writer. * André Michel (director), French film director and screenwriter * André Michel (lawyer), human rights and anti-corruption lawyer and opposition leader in Haiti * Anette Michel (born 1971), Mexican actress * Anneliese Michel (1952 - 1976), German Catholic woman undergone exorcism * Annett Wagner-Michel (born 1955), German Woman Internatio ...
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