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- Brahim Hadjadj began with the film "The Battle of Algiers" (1966), directed by the Italian Gillo Pontecorvo. The 32-year-old actor plays the leading role, that of the Algerian revolutionary hero Ali Ammar (1930-1957), known under the pseudonym "Ali La Pointe". The film received several awards and nominations including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1966, Pontecorvo received the Oscar for best director in 1979.
The success of "The Battle of Algiers" is global, and Brahim Hadjadj becomes the radiant face of Algeria and the country's number one actor. In the minds of all Algerians he becomes "Ali La Pointe", in a film which exposes to the world the abuses of the French colonial army under the cover of "pacification campaigns", previously censored by the French media. Brahim Hadjadj becomes in the middle of the sixties, the rebel hero, glamorous icon of an entire youth who believes that a more egalitarian world is possible. Around the attribution of the role of Ali La Pointe to Brahim Hadjadj, there is a whole mythology, some say that the director Gillo Pontecorvo sitting at the terrace of the Tantonville café in Algiers, saw Hadjadj passing by by chance and offered him the role. Wild casting or not, Gillo Pontecorvo found the naturalness, spontaneity and grace he was looking for in Brahim, for his reality cinema film which he wanted to be as close as possible to a documentary.
Brahim Hadjadj goes from shadow to light after "The Battle of Algiers", without any dramatic training and a basic level of school studies, neither prepared nor supervised, he finds himself hounded by the press, bombarded with questions, which according to him, exceeded his cultural level. The actor, overwhelmed by his new status, still lives as before, day by day. Gillo Pontecorvo, thought of him to play the role of the anticolonial revolutionary José Dolores in his new film "Queimada" (1969). Brahim Hadjadj, then without an agent to manage his career and unpunctual, gave rise to serious doubts in the production company which considered him risky for such a substantial project. Brahim Hadjadj unreachable, the production opts for the Colombian actor Evaristo Márquez who shares the poster with the legend Marlon Brando. Brahim continued his career with Luchino Visconti in 1967 in "The Stranger", in 1969 in "L'Opium Et Le Bâton" by Ahmed Rachedi, in the role of Omar, in 1971 in "Patrouille À l'Est" by Amar Laskri, in 1974 Ahmed Rachedi in "The Finger in the Gear", in 1975 Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina in the cult "Chronique Des Années De Braise", in 1986 he is Si Omar in "The Roaring Years of the Twist" by Mahmoud Zemmouri...
In the 90s, in the middle of the dark decade, bomb attacks increased in Algiers and throughout the country, culture was no longer a priority for institutions, and a good number of intellectuals, journalists and artists, threatened, flee the country. The last years of Brahim Hadjadj's life, in the suburbs of the Algerian capital, in the Cherarba district, were difficult. Hadjadj is diagnosed with a brain tumor. While it took time to raise the funds to send him abroad for surgery, he died in Algiers. - Actress
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Si-Lan Chen was born on 20 March 1909 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies (now Trinidad & Tobago). She was an actress, known for Slave Girl (1947), South Sea Sinner (1950) and The Keys of the Kingdom (1944). She was married to Jay Leyda. She died on 8 March 1996 in Contra Costa, California, USA.- Nonna Terentyeva was born on 15 February 1942 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR [now Azerbaijan]. She was an actress, known for Serebryanoye revyu (1982), A Few Days from the Life of I.I. Oblomov (1980) and Vozdushnye piraty (1992). She died on 8 March 1996 in Moscow, Russia.
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Werner Schlichting was born on 27 June 1904 in Berlin, Germany. He was an art director and production designer, known for Tout pour l'amour (1933), Emil and the Detectives (1931) and A Man Wants to Get to Germany (1934). He was married to Isabella Schlichting and Charlotte Fredersdorf. He died on 8 March 1996 in Oberalm, Salzburg, Austria.- John Chappoulis was an actor, known for Bank Robber (1993) and Mobsters (1991). He died on 8 March 1996.
- Naty Samperio was born on 25 December 1944 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. She was an actress, known for La muerte va con las mariposas (1976), El solitario indomable (1988) and Muerte bajo la piel (1990). She died on 8 March 1996 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico.