Aziz Degga

Acting

Aziz Degga

Born — Died

1945-11-10 — 2019-04-12

Place of birth

Algiers, Algeria

Known for

Acting

Credits

9 titles

Abdelaziz Degga, born on November 10, 1945 in Algiers, is an Algerian actor, comedian and writer. He is the brother of Nasreddine Degga, also an artist, comedian and impersonator. This son of Climat-de-France, in Algiers, began his career as an artist in the theater. In 1967, he joined the dramatic arts section of the Algiers Conservatory. He then played in dialect and in French alongside Azzedine Medjoubi, Madjid Bey, Abdelah Bouzida, Norredine Lameche, Samir Bencherifa and Rabah Allam in the play L’Exception Et La Règle by Bertold Brecht. Until 1972, he continued to perform classical plays with a dramatic tone. After Les Perses by Aeschylus (1967), he played in the play in dialectal Arabi…

Known for

Once Upon a Time in the Oued poster
5.5

In 1988, Johnny Leclerc, the son of a Norman mother and an Alsatian father, lives in a suburban housing estate with his friends. He behaves like a Muslim, observes Ramadan and wears a djelaba. He's even convinced that his name is Abdelbachir and that he was born in a small village in the bled. When his friend Yacine gets into trouble with a local kaid and decides to return to Algeria for the vacations, he smuggles himself into the Sabri family's luggage to fulfill his dream and finally get to know his "roots". As soon as he arrived on the Algerian coast, Johnny felt right at home. But Yacine is opposed to his father, who wants to arrange his marriage.

Once Upon a Time in the Oued

2005

Omar Gatlato poster
6.5

Omar, a young Algerian civil servant living in Algiers, navigating the monotony of everyday life, masculinity, and romantic fantasies in a society caught between tradition and modernity. A witty yet quietly melancholic portrait of urban Algerian youth, where the gap between dreams and reality is often as absurd as it is painfully familiar.

Omar Gatlato

1976

Elli Fat Mat poster
9.0

27 years after 1962, Antoine returns to Algiers...

Elli Fat Mat

1989

Morituri poster
6.2

In the civil war that tore apart Algeria in the 1990s, police chief Brahim Llob hunts down Islamist extremists on a daily basis. Having become the favorite target for them, it is with fear that he goes every morning to his office at the Central Commissariat of Algiers. Annoyed by the power in place, preparing to publish a whistle-blower book, Morituri, Llob is obliged to take early retirement.

Morituri

2007

From Hollywood to Tamanrasset poster
7.6

On the outskirts of Algiers, Algeria. the arrival of the satellite dishes governs the lives of the inhabitants. Dissatisfied with their lives, they think of themselves as the heroes of American soap opera and movies, so JR, Sue Ellen, Rambo, Kojak, Spock and others take possession of bodies and minds, with many typical American culture elements. These heroes mix in a beautiful funny mess, with tradition and modernism, Islam and television, reality and fiction.

From Hollywood to Tamanrasset

1990

Le Clandestin poster
9.5

Nine people with Abdullah Le Clandestin (Illegal Taxi), in one car, on the way to Algiers.

Le Clandestin

1989

Film credits

2000s · 2 titles

1990s · 2 titles