Mohamed Zinet

Mohamed Zinet

Mohamed Zinet (Arabic: محمد زينت) is an Algerian actor and director, born January 16, 1932 in the Casbah of Algiers in Algeria, and died April 10, 1995 in Bondy in France. Born in 1932 in Algiers, Mohamed Zinet developed a passion for theater at a very young age. He led an amateur troupe called El-Manar El-Djazairi (The Algerian Flambeau) and in 1947, in Paris, he presented an adaptation of Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Molière in the Wagram room. Officer of the National Liberation Army (ALN) during the war of independence, he was seriously injured during a mission, then transported to Tunis where the artistic troupe of the National Liberation Front (FLN) was created which constituted the core of the future Algerian National Theater. During his stay in Tunis, he played the role of Lakhdar in Le Cadavre Encerclé by Kateb Yacine, directed by Jean-Marie Serreau. After a first internship in 1959 at the Berliner Ensemble in the GDR, Mohammed Zinet did a second at the Kammerspiele in Munich in 1961. The following year, he stayed in Paris where he was hired by Jean-Marie Serreau for the Scandinavian tour of Les Bonnes de Jean Genet and Amédée or How to Get Rid of It by Eugène Ionesco. Returning to Algiers in 1964, he participated in the creation of the company Casbah Films with Yacef Saâdi and was an assistant on Les Mains Libres by Ennio Lorenzini (1964) and La Bataille d'Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo (1966). He was also in demand as an actor in Monangambée by Sarah Maldoror (1968) and Les Trois Cousins ​​as well as Les Ajoncs by René Vautier (1970). Finally, he is the author of an unpublished play entitled Tibelkachoutine (The Man With Twigs) in Berber, created in 1953, testifying to his great admiration for Charlie Chaplin and silent cinema. A play presented in Tunisia, which he planned to adapt for the cinema but the film will never see the light of day. Made in 1971, Tahya Ya Didou! is the only feature film by director Mohamed Zinet. In this film, he presents his vision of independent Algeria with realism and poetry by discovering the Casbah and white Algiers, pearl of the Mediterranean in a poetic dialogue told by his friend, the poet Himoud Brahimi. The result, an unclassifiable comedy, full of life and fantasy, freshness and poetry, which gradually became cult for film buffs, which was not initially to the taste of the sponsors of the municipality of Algiers who were expecting a documentary. tourism in the capital. Result, Tahya Ya Didou! never had a real release. The film, of which a film copy was eventually found, was restored and digitized in 2016. Subsequently, throughout the 1970s, Mohamed Zinet played among others in Le Bougnoul by Daniel Moosmann (1974), Dupont Lajoie by Yves Boisset (1974), La Vie Devant Soi by Moshe Mizrahi (1977), Robert et Robert by Claude Lelouch (1978), Le Coup De Sirocco by Alexandre Arcady (1979), etc. Mohamed Zinet died on April 10, 1995 in Bondy (Paris region), after several years of hospitalization, Mohamed Zinet is buried in the El-Kettar cemetery in Algiers.

  • Title: Mohamed Zinet
  • Popularity: 1.335
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1932-01-16
  • Place of Birth: Alger, Algérie
  • Homepage: https://africultures.com/personnes/?no=7244
  • Also Known As: محمد زينت, Mohamed Amokrane Zinet
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Mohamed Zinet Movies

  • 1977
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    Madame Rosa

    Madame Rosa

    7 1977 HD

    Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she's a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to children of...

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  • 1979
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    Le Retour

    Le Retour

    10 1979 HD

    In the early 1970s, Lakhdar, an Algerian peasant, is forced to leave his desert land and his family for France, but immigration weighs on him and he...

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  • 1975
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    The Common Man

    The Common Man

    7 1975 HD

    Georges Lajoie is a Parisian café owner. As every summer, Georges, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's...

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  • 1975
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    Le Bougnoul

    Le Bougnoul

    10 1975 HD

    A construction worker on a construction site in the Paris suburbs, Mehdi takes the bus to return home after work. Wishing to get off while the...

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  • 1976
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    Château Espérance

    Château Espérance

    10 1976 HD

    Rachid, a North African immigrant worker in the Fayard company for several years, saved to bring his wife Leïla and their son Larbi. They arrive...

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  • 1981
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    Les Avocats du Diable

    Les Avocats du Diable

    10 1981 HD

    In 1958 in Paris, during the Algerian War, a young trainee lawyer, Maître Chabrier, was assigned to defend an Algerian garbage collector...

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  • 2023
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    Zinet, Algiers, Happiness

    Zinet, Algiers, Happiness

    10 2023 HD

    Who remembers Mohamed Zinet? In the eyes of French spectators who reserve his face and his frail silhouette, he is simply the “Arab...

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  • 1970
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    Les Ajoncs

    Les Ajoncs

    9.2 1970 HD

    An unemployed Algerian worker leaves Paris by hitchhiking. He soon found himself in Brittany and, seduced by the beauty of wild gorse, eventually...

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  • 1970
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    Les Trois Cousins

    Les Trois Cousins

    8 1970 HD

    The Three Cousins ​​is a comedy-drama by René Vautier released in 1970 about the living conditions of three Algerian immigrant cousins...

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  • 1980
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    Aziza

    Aziza

    10 1980 HD

    Around 1980, in Tunisia, Si Béchir, an old craftsman, sold his house and left the medina of Tunis with his family to settle in a new city on...

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  • 1980
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    The Under-Gifted

    The Under-Gifted

    6.477 1980 HD

    The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students...

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  • 1971
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    Tahia Ya Didou !

    Tahia Ya Didou !

    9.5 1971 HD

    Originally commissioned by the city of Algiers to promote tourism, Mohamed Zinet’s Tahia ya Didou blends documentary with fiction to create a...

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  • 1968
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    Monangambeee

    Monangambeee

    6.8 1968 HD

    Filmmaker-griot coming from the theater, it was with a camera, while the war in Vietnam occupied everyone's minds, that Sarah Maldoror gave...

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  • 1979
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    The Kick of Sirocco

    The Kick of Sirocco

    6 1979 HD

    A shady Parisian tries to take advantage of a family of French-descended Algerians forced to move to France.

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  • 1978
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    Robert et Robert

    Robert et Robert

    6.25 1978 HD

    Robert #1 is played by Charles Denner, while Robert #2 is played by Jacques Villeret. Beyond their common name, the two Roberts are as different as...

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  • 1971
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    Tahia Ya Didou !

    Tahia Ya Didou !

    9.5 1971 HD

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  • 1966
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    The Battle of Algiers

    The Battle of Algiers

    7.895 1966 HD

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  • 1971
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    Tahia Ya Didou !

    Tahia Ya Didou !

    9.5 1971 HD

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  • 1965
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    Les Mains Libres

    Les Mains Libres

    10 1965 HD

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  • 1958
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    Les Cinq Dernières Minutes

    Les Cinq Dernières Minutes

    8.5 1958 HD

    Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series

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  • 1970
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    Scene of the Crime

    Scene of the Crime

    6.1 1970 HD

    Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the...

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