ErostrateDiscovering the world's cultures, one work at a time
My list 0

How the works were chosen

Algeria

Filmmaker · Algeria

Mohamed Zinet

Died in 1995

Mohamed Amokrane Zinet was born on 16 January 1932 in the Casbah of Algiers. A theatre enthusiast, he ran an amateur troupe and was acting in Paris from 1947. An officer in the National Liberation Army, seriously wounded on a mission, he was evacuated to Tunis, where the FLN's artistic troupe was preparing the future Algerian National Theatre: there he played the role of Lakhdar in a play by Kateb Yacine staged by Serreau. He studied theatre in Berlin and Munich, took part in 1964 in the founding of Casbah Films and assisted Gillo Pontecorvo. An actor in France all his life, he died in Bondy on 10 April 1995 and is buried in Algiers.

In the catalogue 1