Moussa Haddad

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Moussa Haddad

Born January 1, 1937 · Alger, Algérie

Died September 17, 2019 · aged 82

Moussa Haddad (in Arabic: موسى حداد), born in 1937 in Algiers and died on September 17, 2019 in the same city, is an Algerian film director, screenwriter and producer. Moussa Haddad made his television debut at RTF. He was then assistant director to Italian director Gilo Pontecorvo on the film The Battle of Algiers released in 1966, and The Stranger by Luchino Visconti (1966), two films produced …

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The Battle of AlgiersThe Battle of Algiers · 1966
The Battle of Algiers
★ 7.91966
MovieDramaWar
Former petty criminal Ali la Pointe becomes a commander of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directing a guerilla insurgency against the colonial French occupation. Paratrooper commander Colonel Phillippe Mathieu, a veteran of World War II and the First Indochina War, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings.
Death Walks in LaredoDeath Walks in Laredo · 1967
Death Walks in Laredo
★ 7.21967
MovieWestern
Whitaker Selby, Lester Kato, and Etienne Devereaux, three eccentric gunmen, discover they are brothers. Their father left them all a mine located in Laredo, Texas. But they discover that Julius Caesar Fuller, the town's greedy landowner (who fancies himself Caesar) has taken control of their mine. They band together to fight Caesar and his black clad gunmen to repossess their mine and avenge their father.
Mad InMad In · 1999
Mad In
1999
MovieActionRomance
At the end of the 1990s, in an Algerian society torn between conservatism and changing customs, Nadir, a member of a gang, is ordered to recruit a girl, but he refuses to do so because he is in love with her.
Harraga BluesHarraga Blues · 2013
Harraga Blues
★ 10.02013
Movie
Zine and Rayanne plan to flee to a dreamland, a fantasy haven on the north shore of the Mediterranean. The crossing is commonly made in fishing boats and other small craft; hundreds of harragas die each year. Zine embarks for Spain with a group of others, while Rayyane decides to stay back to raise more money for the crossing - which involves tricking his uncle into lending him money under the pretense of running a local business. But, like so many other working poor around the world, Rayanne refuses to weigh the danger against the prospect of a better world.
Inspector Tahar's HolidayInspector Tahar's Holiday · 1972
Inspector Tahar's Holiday
★ 8.71972
MovieComedyCrime
Inspector Tahar and his apprentice are invited by Mama Traki, a popular Tunisian heroine, to spend their vacation in Tunis. Before leaving Algiers, they stop at a tourist complex where a murder has just been committed. The investigation full of surprises and twists and turns will take them to Tunis where they will find Ommi Traki and his family...
Les Enfants de NovembreLes Enfants de Novembre · 1975
Les Enfants de Novembre
★ 10.01975
MovieDramaWar
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 shouting newspapers who must at all costs pass them on to the resistance. But the police are on their trail and will do anything to get them back.
L'Inspecteur mène l'enquêteL'Inspecteur mène l'enquête · 1967
L'Inspecteur mène l'enquête
★ 10.01967
Movie
Hassan Terro au MaquisHassan Terro au Maquis · 1978
Hassan Terro au Maquis
★ 10.01978
MovieFamilyWar
While trying by all means to stay out of the bloody turmoil caused by the Battle of Algiers, Hassan, an honest and naive family man, is wrongfully accused of terrorism by the French colonial army in "Hassan Terro." After escaping in "The Escape of Hassan Terro," Hassan is forced to join the resistance in "Hassan Terro in the Maquis."

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Boualem Zid El GoudamBoualem Zid El Goudam · 1980
Boualem Zid El Goudam
★ 10.01980
MovieDramaAdventure
Two travelers, Boualem and Sekfali, cross the hostile and endless desert. Boualem pulls a cart on which old books, pictures, relics and memories of Sekfali are piled up. Two men, two attitudes towards life, two visions of the world. Where do they come from, where are they going? The journey would be completely calm and happy if each of them were not inhabited by their pasts, determining their different visions of the future. Boualem's childhood was marked by the Algerian war of liberation. His dream is to achieve a socialist society, which is for him the only path to salvation. Sekfali, who tries to dissuade Boualem from continuing the journey, has the attitude of an aristocrat. For him, socialism is a heresy and people do not like responsibility, they only act if a leader gives them the injunction.

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