Larbi Zekkal

Larbi Zekkal

Born: May 19, 1934
Died: September 17, 2010
in Alger, Algérie

Movies for Larbi Zekkal...

Outside the Law
Title: Outside the Law
Character: Le caïd
Released: September 21, 2010
Type: Movie
After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle.
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Si Mohand u M'hand, l'insoumis
Title: Si Mohand u M'hand, l'insoumis
Character: Le père
Released: September 10, 2008
Type: Movie
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Beur Blanc Rouge
Title: Beur Blanc Rouge
Character: Le commissaire
Released: May 17, 2006
Type: Movie
Le match France - Algérie vient chambouler le train-train de Brahim et Mouloud. Cet évènement va diviser les deux amis : Brahim revendique son identité algérienne, Mouloud fustige son refus de la France, pays qui les a vu grandir.
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Beur Blanc Rouge
Title: Beur Blanc Rouge
Character: Le commissaire algérien
Released: May 17, 2006
Type: Movie
Le match France - Algérie vient chambouler le train-train de Brahim et Mouloud. Cet évènement va diviser les deux amis : Brahim revendique son identité algérienne, Mouloud fustige son refus de la France, pays qui les a vu grandir.
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Autumn,  October In Algiers
Title: Autumn, October In Algiers
Released: January 2, 1993
Type: Movie
The story of a family in the instability and violence that shook Algeria during the riots of October 1988 in the midst of the rise of fundamentalism and intolerance, disappointments and prohibitions, corruption, nepotism and abuse of power. On October 5, 1988, young Algerians occupied the streets... Afterwards, Algeria would plunge into the chaos of the Black Decade which would last more than ten years and leave more than 150,000 dead.
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From Hollywood to Tamanrasset
Title: From Hollywood to Tamanrasset
Character: Le commissaire
Released: July 25, 1990
Type: Movie
On the outskirts of Algiers, Algeria. the arrival of the satellite dishes governs the lives of the inhabitants. Dissatisfied with their lives, they think of themselves as the heroes of American soap opera and movies, so JR, Sue Ellen, Rambo, Kojak, Spock and others take possession of bodies and minds, with many typical American culture elements. These heroes mix in a beautiful funny mess, with tradition and modernism, Islam and television, reality and fiction.
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Harvest of Steel
Title: Harvest of Steel
Released: July 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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Moussa's Wedding
Title: Moussa's Wedding
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
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Wind from the South
Title: Wind from the South
Released: January 2, 1975
Type: Movie
Néfissa, a student in Algiers, returns to her village in the south in the summer. Her father wants her to marry the mayor but she wants to continue her studies. Confronting her father and the opinion of the villagers who do not understand her, she decides to flee to Algiers. The shepherd Rabah discovering her wounded and lost in the mountains, has her treated by her mother. In contact with Nefissa, Rabat becomes aware of his exploited condition and discovers the possibilities offered to him by the cooperatives of the agrarian revolution. The two young people will go through the decisive stage together which will allow them to escape obscurantism and exploitation. Based on the novel "Le vent du sud" by Abdelhamid Benahouga
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El Ghoula
Title: El Ghoula
Released: January 2, 1972
Type: Movie
Directed by Mustapha Kateb.
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Opium and the Stick
Title: Opium and the Stick
Released: September 14, 1970
Type: Movie
In 1950, in Algeria, in a village in Kabylia, Algerian resistance fighters resisted the French occupation army. Bachir returns to the village to escape the clashes ravaging Algiers. In Thala, he has two brothers, Ali and Belaïd. The first is engaged with the ALN (The National Liberation Army) and fights against the colonizer. His second brother, Belaïd, the eldest, is convinced of a French Algeria. His family torn apart, Bachir decides to join the war and takes sides against the repression of the French army. The French army is trying in vain to turn the population against the insurgents by using disinformation. The more time passes, the more the inhabitants of the village and surrounding areas, oppressed, rally to the cause of the FLN, their houses and their fields will be burned... Adaptation to the cinema of the eponymous novel Opium and the Stick, published in 1965, by Mouloud Mammeri, the film was dubbed into Tamazight (Berber), a first for Algerian cinema.
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Hassan Terro
Title: Hassan Terro
Character: The Terrorist
Released: January 2, 1967
Type: Movie
While he tries by all means to stay out of the bloody upheavals caused by the battle of Algiers, Hassan, an honest and naive father, unknowingly offers hospitality to a mujahid actively sought by the army. French. A series of events and misunderstandings quickly catapult him to the forefront, presenting him under the pseudonym “Hassan Terro”, a great fictitious terrorist who would have sworn the doom of the French army...
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The Battle of Algiers
Title: The Battle of Algiers
Character: Combattant FLN
Released: September 8, 1966
Type: Movie
Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in 1957. The film traces the rebels' struggle and the increasingly extreme measures taken by the French government to quell the revolt.