Abderrahmane El Kebir

Abderrahmane El Kebir

Acting

February 1, 1930 — July 21, 2017
Maghnia, Algeria
22 movies

Biography

Abderrahmane El Kebir (in arabic : عبد الرحمن الكبير), born February 1, 1930 in Maghnia, Algeria and died July 21, 2017 in Paris, is an Algerian actor. After a few extras, he was hired by Ali Ghalem to play the lead role in his film/documentary Mektoub, which tells the story of a young Maghrebian arriving in France in the 1970s, lost in a world he does not know. He was then assigned to the roles that French cinema attributed to Maghrebians in the 1970s and 80s: dark henchman, terrorist, grocer....

🎬 Abderrahmane El Kebir's Filmography

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Return to Algiers
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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

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