Saïd Amadis

Saïd Amadis

Acting

July 2, 1946
Oran, France [now Algeria]
25 movies

Biography

Saïd Amadis is a French actor, singer and writer, born in 1946 in Oran, Algeria. He has appeared in numerous films, including "L'Union sacrée", "Là-bas... mon pays", "Syriana", "Voyage sans retour" and "OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies". He also dubs films and is the regular voice of Ving Rhames, Cedric the Entertainer, Michael Clarke Duncan and James Earl Jones.

🎬 Saïd Amadis's Filmography

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Return to Algiers
6.9

Famous TV news anchorman Pierre Nivel left Algiers for France in 1962. That's been a secret; his Paris co-workers have never known that he was formerly an Algerian pied noir. An Algerian delivers an urgent message to Pierre from a Leïla Jalal... Algiers, 1962. The Nivels live in the same apartment building as the Moslem Jalal family. Lycée student Pierre is in love with their daughter, Leïla. The civil unrest in Algeria is heating up and violence is spreading in Algiers. At school, Pierre is friends with a Moslem student, Issam, but he is made fun of for that... Pierre's jet arrives in Algiers. As a celebrity, Pierre is met on arrival by a government official, Nader Mansour. Because of the civil war raging between the government and Islamic terrorists, they drive into the city in a heavily armed convoy. Pierre does not tell Mansour his real reason for returning: Leïla has asked him to help her daughter Amina escape to safety in France.

Return to Algiers

2000
The Honour of the Tribe
9.0

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 dies in childbirth. Omar will return to the village, much later, once independence has been acquired, as a representative of power and with this enigmatic formula: "You must know that the Revolution has not forgotten you". Personal revenge? Sincere desire to bring progress and modernity? ... The inhabitants of Zitouna, upset in their ancestral way of life, will not be long in having an answer to their questions.

The Honour of the Tribe

1993
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