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Ahmed Benaissa
Acting

Ahmed Benaissa
Homepage
http://www.spla.pro/fr/fiche.personnes.spla.9815.html
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1944-03-02,Tlemcen, Algeria
Gender
Male
Biography
Ahmed Benaïssa (in Arabic: أحمد بن عيسى), born March 2, 1944 in Algiers and died May 20, 2022 in Cannes, is a Franco-Algerian actor. As a child, Ahmed Benaïssa was fascinated by the religious festivals of Nédroma where he spent his summer holidays and at the age of 9, in Mazouna, he played in front of another kid's 9.5mm camera for 1mn30! The magic of the show leads him to make his own cinema with cardboard. He joined his father in Paris who had retreated there after his release following independence activities in Algeria. In Oise, at the college boarding school, he became a designated projectionist. In 1960-61, he was in Lyon, aged 17, and frequented the local artistic scene at the Théâtre de la Cité. There he attended the Al Capone show, directed by Planchon. It's dazzling. When Algeria gained independence in 1962, the Lyon consulate included him in an animation course for compatriots from Algeria, then returned to Algeria, to Sidi Bel Abbès, where he entered the conservatory municipal then led by Saïm El Hadj. In July 1964, on a family visit to Algiers, he convinced Bénaïssa Boudia and Mustapha Kateb to join a training course for conservatory graduates at the initiative of the TNA (Algerian National Theater). After six months of training, he was ranked first in each discipline. Its first distribution was under the leadership of Alloula in 1966/67 in Monnaies D’Or. It will be breathtaking there. The TNA sent him to an advanced training course in France, then he moved on to the International Theater Institute. In 1968, he was in the Perennetti and Jean Marie Serreau troupe touring across Europe. Bulimic, he will do café theater and cinema. In 1971, he returned to Algeria, and discovered a theater in decline, emptied of its substance and devoted to propaganda. He distanced himself after three years on stage, and headed towards cinema, then in full development in Algeria. For ten years, he appeared on the big and small screens. In 1985, he returned to the theater, then in a context of "text crisis" like the country at that time. He became a director, first of a children's theater with a superb Kalila or Dimna. In 1996, he directed the Sidi Bel Abbès Theater, then in a lethargic situation since Kateb Yacine was no longer there. He injects new blood with talented young local artists: Abbar Azzedine, Yahia Benamar, Niddal el Mellouhi and others. He will return to TNA. His most beautiful creation was El Maghara El Mounfajira in 2007 based on La Grotte Éclatée by Yamina Méchakra adapted by Haïder Benhassine. Over two decades, he put on shows where he trained comedians in the acting profession. In the cinema, in France and in Europe, we continue to call on Ahmed for his "mouth", his precision and his talent. On May 20, 2022 at 4:30 a.m., Ahmed Benaïssa died at the age of 78, in full promotion of the film Goutte d'or at the 2022 Cannes festival, of a pulmonary embolism in his sleep in a hospital in Cannes where he had been evacuated after feeling unwell. He is buried in the El-Alia cemetery in Algiers.

Filmography

5.8

Arabian Nights
2007-11-16

Étoile aux dents ou Poulou le magnifique

10

Étoile aux dents ou Poulou le magnifique
1971-01-01

Rome Rather Than You

6.2

Rome Rather Than You
2006-09-04

The Epic of Cheikh Bouamama

8.5

The Epic of Cheikh Bouamama
1985-01-07

10

Rumeur, etc.
2003-01-01

Leila and the Others

10

Leila and the Others
1977-01-02

The Female Demon

10

The Female Demon
1994-01-02

Ismael's Ghosts

5.61

Ismael's Ghosts
2017-05-17

3.8

Habib
2023-02-22

Les Enfants de Novembre

10

Les Enfants de Novembre
1975-01-02

Gates of the Sun

3.688

Gates of the Sun
2015-03-18

10

Krim Belkacem
2014-11-01

6.105

Sons of Ramses
2023-03-01

Profumi d'Algeri

6.8

Profumi d'Algeri
2015-01-01

One Roof, One Family

10

One Roof, One Family
1982-02-07

La Tragédie du Roi Christophe

10

La Tragédie du Roi Christophe
1965-01-01

5.813

My Revolution
2016-08-03

Mostefa Ben Boulaïd

7.5

Mostefa Ben Boulaïd
2008-12-01

10

Harraga Blues
2013-10-23

10

Kahla wa Bayda
1980-01-01

9.5

Le Clandestin
1989-01-01

5.9

Close Enemies
2018-10-03

7

Sotto Voce
2013-06-04

Outside the Law

6.6

Outside the Law
2010-09-21

4.5

Morituri
2007-04-25

5.8

Inland
2008-08-27

7.653

Papicha
2019-10-09

0

Mista
2014-06-04

9

Wlad Lahlal
2019-05-07