Acting
Mohamed Fellag
Mohand Fellag (in Arabic محمد فلاق; in Berber ⴼⴻⵍⵍⴰⴳ), known as Mohamed Fellag or simply "Fellag" or sometimes Mohamed Saïd Fellag, is an Algerian actor, humorist and writer, born March 31, 1950 in Azeffoun in Algeria. Mohamed Fellag (ⴼⴻⵍⵍⴰⴳ in Tifinagh) was born in Azeffoun in Kabylia. He only spoke Kabyle until the family moved to Algiers when he was eight years old. He then learned Algerian Arabic and French.
His father, an FLN activist during the war, was killed in a car accident in 1965 during a mission (he was 15). He studied theater at the National Institute of Dramatic and Choreographic Art of Algiers, located in Bordj el Kiffan, from 1968 to 1972. He left the National Theater and founded his company with former students. They write texts, go on tour, play in prisons, factories, etc. He emigrated to Quebec in 1978, then to Paris in 1982, living from small jobs. In September 1985, he returned to Algeria and was hired by the Algerian National Theater to perform "The Art of Comedy" by Eduardo De Filippo. He worked as an actor and director, and began writing his texts, including his first show, "Les Aventures de Tchop" in 1986. He became a star thanks to performances mixing Berber, Arabic and French.
In 1991, "Babor Australia" was created in Kabyle, then performed in Algerian Arabic in Paris. At the Théâtre de l'Europe in 1992, it was performed alternately in Kabyle and Algerian Arabic. "Babor Australia", updated to "A boat for Australia" in 2002, is based on a rumor, evoking the imminent arrival in Algiers of an Australian boat supposed to take unemployed people to provide them with employment and accommodation there, which caused a queue in front of the Australian embassy.
He directed the Béjaïa theater for a while in 1992-939.
The Algerian Civil War broke out, Fellag went on tour in 1994 with "Babor Australia", in Algeria then in Tunisia. At the end of the year, he settled in Tunis where he created "Delirium". In 1995, he went into exile in Paris. He writes there "Djurdjurassique Bled", which is represented alternately in Kabyle and Algerian Arabic. Then, he adapted it into French and this first show in French, created in December 1997, earned him the 1997-1998 Critics' Union Prize, theatrical revelation of the year.
Fellag lived with the actress Marianne Épin, who died on December 9, 2017, who staged several of his last shows.
Filmography
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What the Day Owes the Night
Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he g...
Zarafa
Inspired by the true story of the first giraffe to visit France, Zarafa is a sumptuously animated and stirring...
Monsieur Lazhar
During a harsh Montréal winter, an elementary-school class is left reeling after its teacher commits suicide. B...
The Rabbi's Cat
The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a...
Les Barons
The Barons have a motto: "slack off more to live longer." Every human being is born with a credit of steps. Eve...
Intimate Enemies
A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.
Michou d'Auber
Set in France during the struggle for Algerian independence, Messaoud's mother is terminally ill and his father...
Lumières
Long quest for a director specializing in commissioned films, who after a depression rediscovers his loved ones...
Ni reprise, ni échangée
Juliette, a mother of wealthy family and a little snobbish, has gradually developed a kind of generalized conte...
The Kid from Chaaba
Le Gone du Chaâba (The Kid of the Chaaba), translated into English as Shantytown Kid by Naima Wolf, is an autob...
Liberty at Night
In the mist of the Algerian events, a man finds a fugitive happiness beside a local woman.
Inch'Allah dimanche
The story of an immigrant woman struggling against old world traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with her th...
Bacon on the Side
Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship d...
Sons of the Earth
A drama set a little before the 1920s, in which scattered news, stories and rumors spread the presence of a new...
Barrières
Tahar, son of a wealthy family, is trying to preserve his privileged status despite the social changes brought...
Top Floor Left Wing
Like every morning, François Echeveria, a bailiff, should have been able to make a seizure in a suburban city,...
Me and El Che
GO is not just an aging college teacher. He still is the young 18 year-old idealist who dared to engaged in soc...
Il faut sauver Saïd
10-year-old Saïd, a child of Algerian immigrants, is talented, motivated and would like to be a good student. B...
Hassan Niya
The story of Hassan, the handyman in the inn of his sister Aïcha, widowed and childless. A whole series of inci...
Le Dernier chameau
La Veuve tatouée
Colette, fifty years old and devoted to her children, sees her life turned upside down the day she inherits her...
Flowers of Blood
In custody after she murders her middle aged photographer lover, a fourteen year old Pam reflects back on the b...
Voisins, voisines
The Mozart Residence is home to several "new owners" of all origins: a new concierge, Paco, of Spanish origin,...
From Hollywood to Tamanrasset
On the outskirts of Algiers, Algeria. the arrival of the satellite dishes governs the lives of the inhabitants....
Sombréro
Sombrero is a 1986 crime comedy by Algerian director Rabah Bouberras, produced by ENTV. A gang smuggles preciou...
L'ère des Ninjas
Where Fig Trees Grow
An ensemble piece set in a North African neighbourhood in Toulon.
Fellag: Un bateau pour l'Australie
Cocktail khorotov
From 1978 to 1985, he participated in several theatrical productions, before returning to Algeria in 1985 to jo...
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Un bateau pour l’Australie