Himoud Brahimi
Himoud Brahimi born in Algiers on March 18, 1918, was a poet, inspired writer, swimmer - he broke the world record for freediving in 1956 at the Paris swimming pool - memorable actor of the Algerian National Theater and best cinema Algerian in the 1970s and 80s, (he notably distinguished himself in the film "Tahya Ya Didou" by Mohamed Zinet and "Taxi El Makhfi" (The Clandestine) by Benamar Bakhti), an essential character in the heated debates from then to the Algiers cinema library. Mohamed Brahimi, baptized "Himoud" by his nanny M'Barka, nicknamed Momo by his French admirers, is a profound and multifaceted character, his career will be dominated by his relationship to the sciences of metaphysics, publishing, among others, The Supreme Identity (1958), a manifesto on theology and philosophy. This Sufi Muslim was interested in Christianity, Judaism and even Hinduism, revealing a philosophy inherent in integral love and knowledge through light: "I learned that the value of man lies not in not in what he can imagine and create for the world of the senses; but to encourage the infiltration of light into what is still unknown in it, to enlarge the knowledge of the infinite that it conveys.” Described as a blessed poet, Momo – it is true – left his mark with these verses and especially with his text “Mienne Casbah”. The love he has for her – and by extrapolation to his entire country. Friendly humanist without limits has always advocated love of one's neighbor, whatever the country and its culture, but proclaiming his city as a "sleeping conscience of a civilization" in the Mediterranean, a reference to the historical and cultural memory of Algeria and an immutable link between the past and the present. He led this fight until his death on June 30, 1997 in Algiers. He will have lived rebellious, loving freedom and dignity.
Le Clandestin
as HassanNine people with Abdullah Le Clandestin (Illegal Taxi), in one car, on the way to Algiers.
Movie pageSandstorm
as uncreditedSeen right through the sandstorms that rack the lives of a tribe living on a desert oasis, is a...
Movie pageTahia Ya Didou !
as Momo, Le poèteOriginally commissioned by the city of Algiers to promote tourism, Mohamed Zinet’s Tahia ya...
Movie pageDaughter of the Sands
as The jesterThis Moroccan romance is a kind of Arab Tristan and Isolde: the heroine kills herself when she...
Movie pageCry of Stone
as SalahLed by Daoudi, a disenchanted architect, a group of Constantines return to their village in deep...
Movie pageHeart of the Casbah
as uncreditedMaria-Pilar is the new wife of an Algerian gangster whom the police have just arrested. The son...
Movie pageالعنقة (El Anka)
as Self1/4 - In 1925, the young M’hamed El Anka replaced his master Nador at short notice. He realizes...
Movie pageSons of the Earth
as uncredited"Hijos de la tierra" presents a drama set a little before the 1920s, in which scattered news,...
Movie pageThe Olive tree of Boul'hivet
as uncreditedDirected by Mohamed Nadir Azizi.
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