Mohamed Chouikh
Birthday: 1943-11-03
Place of Birth: Mostaganem, Algéria
Biography: Mohamed Chouikh (born 1943) is an Algerian filmmaker and actor. Mohamed Chouikh was born at Mostaganem, Algeria on 3 September 1943, where he was to become a stage actor with a troupe which later developed into the Algerian National Theatre. In 1965, he acted in one of Algeria's greatest film productions, L'Aube des damnés by René Vautier and Ahmed Rachedi. In 1966 he took the role of Lakhdar (the son) in Mohamed Lakhdar Hamina's highly successful Le vent des Aurès. In 1972 he directed L'Embouchure for Algerian TV, followed in 1974 by Les Paumés (1974). In 1982 he made his first feature-length film, Rupture, and has pursued a writer-director career since then.
Movies
Elise, or Real Life
In the middle of the Algerian war, Elise, from Bordeaux, “goes” to Paris to join her brother to earn...
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Dawn of the Damned
This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is...
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The Outlaws
In prison in colonial Algeria, shortly after the end of the Second World War, three indigenous cellm...
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The Nomads
When their father dies, three nomadic sons choose different voices. The first part for the city, the...
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L'Obstacle
Algerian youth of the 1960s, straddling traditional South Mediterranean and Western culture and the ...
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The Winds of the Aures
The transformations of the daily life of the Algerian people during the destructive French occupatio...
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Dance of the Wind
Youssef, a director in his fifties, is preparing a film and goes scouting in the south of Tunisia. H...
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