Ahmed Benaissa

Ahmed Benaissa

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.

  • Title: Ahmed Benaissa
  • Popularity: 2.218
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1944-03-02
  • Place of Birth: Algiers, Algeria
  • Homepage: http://www.spla.pro/fr/fiche.personnes.spla.9815.html
  • Also Known As: Ahmed Benaïssa, Ahmed Ben Aïssa, Ahmed Ben Aissa, أحمد بن عيسى
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Ahmed Benaissa Movies

  • 2007
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    Arabian Nights

    Arabian Nights

    5.7 2007 HD

    Georges's life is turned upside-down when he meets Yamina and decides to help her. While she seems to be persecuted and living in hiding, Georges's...

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  • 1971
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    Étoile aux dents ou Poulou le magnifique

    Étoile aux dents ou Poulou le magnifique

    10 1971 HD

    In the 70s, in the Goutte d'or district, three friends of Algerian origin: Poulou, a failed boxer, Amar, the clumsiest of thieves, and Jibé, a...

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  • 2006
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    Rome Rather Than You

    Rome Rather Than You

    6.2 2006 HD

    "For more than ten years, Algeria has been living a slow war, a war without a front line but having caused more than 100,000 deaths. It is this...

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  • 1985
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    The Epic of Cheikh Bouamama

    The Epic of Cheikh Bouamama

    10 1985 HD

    The story of the film revolves around the epic of Sheikh Bouamama, a leader of the national resistance in Algeria during the French colonial era. The...

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  • 2003
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    Rumeur, etc.

    Rumeur, etc.

    10 2003 HD

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  • 1977
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    Leila and the Others

    Leila and the Others

    10 1977 HD

    The story of Algerian women trying to live in 1970s Algeria where the society is between conservative values and progressive modern Algeria.

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  • 1994
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    The Female Demon

    The Female Demon

    10 1994 HD

    Directed by Hafsa Zinai Koudil.

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  • 2017
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    Ismael's Ghosts

    Ismael's Ghosts

    5.6 2017 HD

    Just as the disheveled and alcoholic filmmaker Ismaël embarks on a difficult new film project, his life is sent into a tailspin. His wife...

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  • 2023
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    Habib

    Habib

    3.8 2023 HD

    The story of a young Belgian actor of Moroccan origin who agrees to play the role of Saint-François-d'Assise to put an end to the roles of...

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  • 1975
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    Les Enfants de Novembre

    Les Enfants de Novembre

    10 1975 HD

    In the streets of the Casbah of Algiers, an FLN fighter pursued by the colonial police hands over confidential documents to Mourad, an Algerian child...

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  • 2015
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    Gates of the Sun

    Gates of the Sun

    3.4 2015 HD

    An Algerian secret agent has to destroy an undercover paramilitary organization that plans to strike against the country and its people.

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  • 2014
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    Krim Belkacem

    Krim Belkacem

    10 2014 HD

    This film retraces the combat journey of Krim Belkacem, one of the leading figures of the Algerian War. When he left the Dellys barracks in October...

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  • 2023
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    Sons of Ramses

    Sons of Ramses

    6.264 2023 HD

    Thirty-four year old Ramsès has established himself as a clairvoyant in La Goutte d’Or, Paris. A shrewd manipulator and something of a...

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  • 2015
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    Profumi d'Algeri

    Profumi d'Algeri

    6.8 2015 HD

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  • 1982
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    One Roof, One Family

    One Roof, One Family

    10 1982 HD

    Selim Mechoubine, a young man of 28, is the eldest of a large family. In the cramped accommodation he shares with his parents, brothers and...

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  • 1965
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    La Tragédie du Roi Christophe

    La Tragédie du Roi Christophe

    10 1965 HD

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  • 2016
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    My Revolution

    My Revolution

    6.5 2016 HD

    The Arab Spring in Paris: Head over heels in love, Marwann, aged 14, hopes to win over Sygrid by cleverly re-inventing himself as a revolutionary....

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  • 2008
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    Mostefa Ben Boulaïd (مصطفى بن بولعيد)

    Mostefa Ben Boulaïd (مصطفى بن بولعيد)

    7.7 2008 HD

    The film revolves around the life of the martyr Mustapha Ben Bouleid (1917-1956), who was a member of the Algerian National Movement, who worked with...

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  • 2013
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    Harraga Blues

    Harraga Blues

    10 2013 HD

    Zine and Rayanne plan to flee to a dreamland, a fantasy haven on the north shore of the Mediterranean. The crossing is commonly made in fishing boats...

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  • 1980
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    Kahla wa Bayda

    Kahla wa Bayda

    10 1980 HD

    Rabie is a kid from Sétif in 1980, trying to collect money to buy a wheelchair for his paralyzid sister Sassia, so she can get out of the...

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  • 1989
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    Le Clandestin

    Le Clandestin

    10 1989 HD

    Nine people with Abdullah Le Clandestin (Illegal Taxi), in one car, on the way to Algiers.

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  • 2018
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    Close Enemies

    Close Enemies

    5.9 2018 HD

    Driss and Manuel both grew up on the same council estate. An estate where the sense of belonging to your patch is much stronger than the sense of...

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  • 2013
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    Sotto Voce

    Sotto Voce

    7 2013 HD

    During the Algerian war, the road to Beni Boussaid on the Morocco-Algeria border is obstructed by the Morice line, a 430-mile long belt that is...

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  • 2010
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    Outside the Law

    Outside the Law

    6.6 2010 HD

    After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French...

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  • 2008
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    Inland

    Inland

    5.8 2008 HD

    Algerian filmmaker Tariq Teguia wrote and directed this impressionistic look at a man whose life takes an unexpected turn far away from home. Malek...

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  • 2007
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    Morituri

    Morituri

    4.5 2007 HD

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  • 2019
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    Papicha

    Papicha

    7.633 2019 HD

    Nedjma, an 18-year-old student passionate about fashion design refuses to let the tragic events of the Algerian Civil War keep her from experiencing...

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  • 2014
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    Mista

    Mista

    1 2014 HD

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