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 Finally, he is the author of an unpublished play entitled Tibelkachoutine (The Man With Twigs) in Berber, created in 1953, testifying to his great admiration for Charlie Chaplin and silent cinema.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.

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  • Farin jini: 3.067
  • Sananne Domin: Acting
  • Ranar haihuwa: 1932-01-16
  • Wurin Haihuwa: Alger, Algérie
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  • Kuma An San As: محمد زينت, Mohamed Amokrane Zinet
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Mohamed Zinet Fina-finai

  • 1977
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    La Vie devant soi

    La Vie devant soi

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  • 1979
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    Le Retour

    Le Retour

    10 1979 HD

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  • 1975
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    Dupont Lajoie

    Dupont Lajoie

    7 1975 HD

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  • 1975
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    Le Bougnoul

    Le Bougnoul

    10 1975 HD

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  • 1976
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    Château Espérance

    Château Espérance

    10 1976 HD

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  • 1981
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    Les Avocats du Diable

    Les Avocats du Diable

    10 1981 HD

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  • 2023
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    زينات، الجزائر، السعادة

    زينات، الجزائر، السعادة

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  • 1970
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    Les Trois Cousins

    Les Trois Cousins

    8 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Les Ajoncs

    Les Ajoncs

    9.2 1970 HD

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  • 1980
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    Aziza

    Aziza

    10 1980 HD

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  • 1980
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    Les sous-doués

    Les sous-doués

    6.482 1980 HD

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  • 1971
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    Tahia Ya Didou !

    Tahia Ya Didou !

    9.5 1971 HD

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  • 1968
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    Monangambeee

    Monangambeee

    6.8 1968 HD

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  • 1979
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    Le Coup de Sirocco

    Le Coup de Sirocco

    6 1979 HD

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  • 1978
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    Robert et Robert

    Robert et Robert

    6.25 1978 HD

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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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    La battaglia di Algeri

    La battaglia di Algeri

    7.9 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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  • 1958
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    Les Cinq Dernières Minutes

    Les Cinq Dernières Minutes

    8.5 1958 HD

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  • 1970
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    Tatort

    Tatort

    6.1 1970 HD

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