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Ghaouti Bendedouche

Ghaouti Bendedouche

Directing

Biography

Ghaouti Bendedouche (often written Ghaouti Bendeddouche), born in Tlemcen in 1936, is an Algerian director and screenwriter. He studies cinema at IDHEC in Paris. Upon his return to Algeria, he worked as an assistant director on feature films (for Badie, Costa-Gavras and Mazif) and for ten years as a director of documentary films. He then directed an episode "La Mer" of the collective film "L'Enfer à Dix Ans" (1968). Then the feature films: "Echebka" (1976), "Morte La Longue Nuit" (co-directed with Mohamed Slim Riad, 1979), "Moissons d'Acier" (1982), "Hassan Niya" (1989), "La Neighbor” (Al Jara) (2002).

Known For

Echebka (الشبكة)
10.0

Maamar (Sid Ali Kouiret), a young fisherman working in a small port in western Algeria, is forced to sell his goods at a discount every day to Si Khelifa (Abdelhalim Rais), owner of many trucks and a cannery where the wives work fishermen. He has a strange encounter. As he returns from fishing, bassinet in hand, he witnesses a car accident. Indeed, a car hits a tree with a beautiful girl “Hayat” on board who has lost consciousness. Maamar pulls her out of the car and saves her. It is at this precise moment that he realizes the existence of another world. As if awakened from a long sleep, he realizes that this exploitation can no longer continue. He leaves his village and his wife Laâlia (Fatima Belhadj) on a whim for three years. He finds himself in the capital which he leaves to return to his village and carry out a saving action...

Echebka (الشبكة)

1976Movie