Fettouma Ousliha-Bouamari

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Fettouma Ousliha-Bouamari born in Algiers, is an Algerian actress, musician and singer. Fettouma Ousliha is the daughter of a docker father, a worker mother... and a daughter of the revolution as she defines herself "I was a teenager during the war of national liberation; I grew up in the middle of the battle of Algiers". In these conditions, there was no question of studying to become an actress, of going through conservatories: "My parents did not have the means to allow me to continue school; my father, at the port, did not bring in tokens every days: I wanted to find work to help my parents. I started as a typist, says Fettouma, but, from my childhood, my goal was to do theater, and I wanted to deepen my cultural level for that." Here she is, a singer; Mustapha Kateb, then director of the Algerian National Theater, encouraged him; and also the playwrights Kaki and Abdelkader Sefiri. She debuted on stage in "L'Oiseau Vert", in 1963, an adaptation of Gozzi's play; secondly, it is a creation of a social nature. “Two Rooms Kitchen”; then “The Caucasian Chalk Circle”, by Brecht, and “The Man with the Rubber Sandals”, by Kateb Yacine; finally, two other creations: “The Blood of the Righteous” (on the armed revolution) and a “Revizor”, inspired by Gogol, on bureaucracy. All these shows were performed in dialect Arabic. The film "Premier Pas" by Mohamed Bouamari (1979) earned the actress Fettouma Ousliha-Bouamari, his partner in life, the Interpretation prize at Carthage 1980.


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Munich

as Aida Refugee Camp Woman
Released: 2005-12-23

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered...

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Change My Life

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Discount

as Madame Benhaoui
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To fight against the introduction of automatic checkouts that threaten their jobs, staff members...

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Bay of Algiers

as Zoubida
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The writer Louis Gardel remembers his youth in Algeria. In 1955, Louis is 15 years old and...

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Hassan Niya

as uncredited
Released: 1989-01-02

The story of Hassan, the handyman in the inn of his sister Aïcha, widowed and childless. A whole...

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First Step

as uncredited
Released: 1980-01-02

A modern couple seeks to find marital happiness in a context where Algerian society is taking...

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My Family's Honour

as uncredited
Released: 1997-01-02

In the nightclub where she works, Carole is dreaming. She has always dreamed of leaving her...

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The Inheritance

as uncredited
Released: 1975-01-01

A harrowing picture of the heritage of colonialism, focusing on a man driven mad by torture but...

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Sisters

as Leila (mère)
Released: 2021-06-30

For thirty years, French-Algerian sisters Zorah, Nohra and Djamila have been living in the hope...

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The Empire of Dreams

as L'Actrice
Released: 1982-06-05

A stubborn director who wants to rediscover the Algiers of his childhood comes up against the...

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The Charcoal Maker

as L'Épouse
Released: 1973-01-02

Film describes the miserable existence of a charcoal-burner who is barely able to feed his...

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The Citadel

as Helima
Released: 1988-01-02

El Kalaa, a village in southern Oran. Although already married, old Sidi planned to marry...

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Enough!

as uncredited
Released: 2006-09-13

Set amidst the civil war of Algeria in the 1990s, Enough! is the story of two women. Emel is a...

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The Refusal

as uncredited
Released: 1982-01-02

In 1971, the Algerian government nationalized hydrocarbons. The consequences of this decision on...

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