Hadj Smaine Mohamed Seghir

Hadj Smaine Mohamed Seghir

Hadj Smaine Mohamed Seghir, (often credited Hadj Smaine) born October 29, 1932 in Constantine, and died September 6, 2021 in Los Angeles, is an Algerian actor and director. At that time, Constantine was considered a place giving great importance to religion, culture, art, and Algerian Arab-Muslim traditions. Hadj Smaine grew up in Constantine with his family and friends who loved art and culture in general; cinema, music, scouting, sports such as swimming in Sidi M'Sid. With his scout friends, Hadj Smaine played sketches inspired by the films they watched in the city's theaters. With friends, they went to the Constantine film club (ex. Université Populaire, Abdelhamid Ben Badis Center currently). The Popular University, which was at the same time the conservatory of the city of Constantine, had premises allocated to associations for musicians, for amateur theater, among others for scouts. The Popular University also had other administrative functions because it depended on a state structure; the French Colonial Administration. Over time, Hadj Smaine had joined the theater troupe Les Milles et une Nuits with other friends of scouting; Hassan Belhadj (1st director of Algerian Cinema, great actor, patriot and former collaborator of M'Hamed Yazid) and Abdelkrim Menaï (former scout of Muslim scouts). After several years of theater practice, Hadj Smaine left the troupe Les Milles et Une Nuit in order to create a theater without "sketch", similar to that which was practiced in Europe and in the Arab world (in Egypt more particularly). Among others, Hadj Smaine was a member of the following theater troupes: Les Milles et Une Nuits, Les Compagnons du Vieux Rocher, The Algerian theater team before Independence (from 1957 to 1958), The troupe of the Youth House of Hussein Dey (before 1962), Les Capucines d'Alger (before 1962), The National Theater of Algeria (at Independence). He died on September 6, 2021 in Los Angeles (USA).

  • Title: Hadj Smaine Mohamed Seghir
  • Popularity: 3.809
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1932-10-29
  • Place of Birth: Constantine, Algérie
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  • Also Known As: Hadj Smaine
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Hadj Smaine Mohamed Seghir Movies

  • 1979
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    The Adventures of a Hero

    The Adventures of a Hero

    10 1979 HD

    In one of the tribes of the Algerian Sahara, everyone awaits the arrival of the hero who will defend the rights of the poor. A man decides one day to...

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  • 1987
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    Cry of Stone

    Cry of Stone

    10 1987 HD

    Led by Daoudi, a disenchanted architect, a group of Constantines return to their village in deep Algeria where a young man delivers to them words of...

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  • 1985
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    The Man Who Was Looking at the Windows

    The Man Who Was Looking at the Windows

    10 1985 HD

    A police office in Algiers sometime after independence. Mr Rachid, father, around fifty years old, former colonial official transferred to the cinema...

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  • 1975
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    Chronicle of the Years of Fire

    Chronicle of the Years of Fire

    6.3 1975 HD

    A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak of the revolution on November 1, 1954, the...

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  • 1967
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    The Winds of the Aures

    The Winds of the Aures

    6.4 1967 HD

    Le Vent des Aurès – the first road movie of Algerian cinema – describes the transformations of the daily life of the Algerian...

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  • 1971
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    Patrol in the East

    Patrol in the East

    8.5 1971 HD

    The film traces the story of a patrol of the Algerian National Liberation Army (ALN), whose mission is to transport a prisoner French soldier to the...

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  • 1966
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    The Battle of Algiers

    The Battle of Algiers

    7.9 1966 HD

    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...

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  • 1977
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    The Uprooted

    The Uprooted

    10 1977 HD

    In 1880, in colonized Algeria, it was decided that the Algerian peasants of the Ouarsenis mountains would see their lands dispossessed in favor 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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  • 1986
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    Last Image

    Last Image

    1 1986 HD

    Seen through the filtered lens of boyhood memories, award-winning director Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina crafted this half-fictional, half-autobiographical...

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  • 2016
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    Sharia

    Sharia

    1 2016 HD

    Sofiane is an Arab immigrant who lives in the US away from religion, customs, and traditions of his native land. His life is turned upside down as...

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  • 1987
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    Cry of Stone

    Cry of Stone

    10 1987 HD

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  • 1971
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    Patrol in the East

    Patrol in the East

    8.5 1971 HD

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  • 1966
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    The Battle of Algiers

    The Battle of Algiers

    7.9 1966 HD

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  • 2016
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    Sharia

    Sharia

    1 2016 HD

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  • 2016
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    Sharia

    Sharia

    1 2016 HD

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  • 1974
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    L’Incendie (El Harik)

    L’Incendie (El Harik)

    10 1974 HD

    In 1939 in eastern Algeria, Omar, a young boy of ten, lives with his family in a room in Dar Sbitar, a house shared by several families who overcome...

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