Ahmed Snoussi

Acting

Ahmed Snoussi

Born 1946-11-05 · Le Sers, Tunisia

Ahmed Snoussi (1946-2015) was an actor who is considered an icon of cinema and theater in Tunisia. Across a five-decade career he appeared in countless films and television series in Tunisia and abroad. He was married to fellow actor Hélène Catzaras, with whom he had two children.

Acting credits

Le prince poster
9.0

In Tunis, Adel a dreamer florist, falls in love with a pretty woman Dounia a director of a bank branch. To win her love, he uses the language of flowers and delivers her each morning the bouquets under a mysterious admirer.

Le prince

2005

Confessions of the latter rain poster
NR

A mysterious woman goes into a remote house of a family with a long history, but a set of secrets and stories that ties her to the family are revealed, and together they discover unexpected truths on a rainy night.

Confessions of the latter rain

1992

The Key to Rebecca poster
5.1

From master storyteller and best-selling author, Ken Follett, comes the exotic spy-thriller based on true events. North Africa, Summer of 1942 — master spy, Alex Wolff is on a mission to send General Erwin Rommel's advancing army the secrets that would unlock the doors to Cairo... and the ultimate Nazi triumph in the war. Wolff's pursuer, Major Vandarn, engages the seductive charm of Elene Fontana to lure him into range for what is to be a startling and explosive confrontation.

The Key to Rebecca

1985

Wandering Heart poster
NR

After the death of her husband in very strange circumstances, a young widow decides to refuse to re-many, and thereby breaks with the traditional submissive role of women. She tries to choose how to love, and how to live. A feminine journey through the depths of Islamic culture. A tale that involves reality, poetry and magic..

Wandering Heart

1990

Madame La France poster
NR

In Tunisia, in the small village of Takrouna, Kassem dreams only of going to France just as construction begins on the Club du Soleil, a vacation camp for tourists.

Madame La France

1977

Un si beau voyage poster
NR

Mohamed is a retired factory worker. He lives alone in a nursing home. However, due to illness, he must now leave his room. He decides to return to Tunisia, a country he has not seen in a long time.

Un si beau voyage

2009

Ali in Wonderland poster
9.5

In the 1980s, barely 18 years after Algeria's independence, Algerian immigration to France massively fueled the construction industry, responding to a demand for hard, undervalued labor. Behind the idea of ​​"selective immigration," these men were recruited primarily for their bras and their knock-kneed hands, shaped by construction sites. Invisible yet essential, they built roads, buildings, and infrastructure, often at the cost of precarious conditions. Ali, an Algerian crane operator in France, philosophically accepts the harassment faced by immigrants like himself on construction sites and in daily life. He hopes to escape his situation with the money he wins in the lottery, and from the top of his crane, he allows himself to dream, observing the world through binoculars. One day, the jackpot falls...

Ali in Wonderland

1980

The Balad of Mamelouk poster
7.0

Mamluk is an unassuming, handsome young peasant who happens to have come along just in time to save the king from a fatal trap, and as a reward, the king offers him the amount of land he can mark off by walking around in one day but he must return to the starting point before sunset.

The Balad of Mamelouk

1982

Sun of the Hyenas poster
7.8

In a small, self-sufficient Tunisian fishing village, German developers set up a hotel infrastructure, with the complicity of local councillors. The lives of the villagers are turned upside down.

Sun of the Hyenas

1977

Le Temps Qui Passe… poster
NR

The voice of the actress Hélène Catzaras evokes her artistic experience with her late husband, the actor Ahmed Snoussi, in Soleil des Hyènes by Ridha Béhi, a film that appeared at the 1978 edition of the Carthage Film Festival. A small, intimate and poetic portrait of the late great actor, carried by his wife's voice-over and illustrated by film extracts and notably by landscapes and nostalgic and tender moments of a cinephilic memory that defies oblivion...

Le Temps Qui Passe…

2020