Acting
Hacène Benzerari
Born
1946-01-01 (80)
Place of birth
Constantine, Algeria
Known for
Acting
Credits
9 titles
Hacène Benzerari (Arabic: حسان بن زراري), born in 1946 in Constanine in Algeria, is an Algerian actor and screenwriter. He is married to the actress Nora Benzerari. French teacher then production manager at the Algerian television station of Constantine (ENTV), he began his career in the cinema in the film Patrouille à l'Est (1971) by Amar Laskri. He then played in the film Chronique Des Années De Braise (1975) by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, then in numerous classic productions of Algerian cinema on the small and big screen including the series Nass Mlah City (2002), Bab El Web ( 2005), A Story About Land (2015), The Bureau of Legends (2015) etc.
Known for
8.2Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their mission is to identify individuals who may be recruited as sources of information. Operating "under caption", that is to say in a fabricated identity from scratch, they live for many years in a permanent duplicity. Our hero just returned from a clandestine mission six years in Damascus. But contrary to what is required by safety rules, he does not abandon his legend and the identity under which he lived in Syria, thus putting in danger the whole system.
The Bureau
2015
3.7An Algerian secret agent has to destroy an undercover paramilitary organization that plans to strike against the country and its people.
Gates of the Sun
2015
6.0Kamel and his brother Bouzid live in Bab el Oued, a working-class neighborhood in Algiers. Kamel is a loner, disillusioned and taciturn. Bouzid, more jovial, is an Internet enthusiast. He spends his time in a cybercafé chatting with girls from all over the world. Without really believing it, he invites them to Algiers. But one day, Laurence, one of his French correspondents, tells him that she accepts his invitation.
Bab El Web
2005
10.0The film relates the career of Colonel Lotfi, whose real name is Benali Boudghene, since his beginnings as an activist in Tlemcen where, with his classmates from high school, he posted the call of 1 November 1954, addressed by National Liberation Front (FLN) to the Algerian people.
Lotfi
2015
8.0The film traces the story of a patrol of the Algerian National Liberation Army (ALN), whose mission is to transport a prisoner French soldier to the Tunisian border. Through the march of this group of guerrillas we witness the spirit of sacrifice and combativeness of these men from the people. The patrol will be decimated, but a young peasant will take over and complete the mission.
Patrol in the East
1971
NRThe film recounts the twists and turns of a police investigation into a "mysterious" crime committed in Jijel. Commissioner Kindy, dispatched from Algiers and assisted by the local police, is tasked with conducting the investigation. A native of Jijel but having left the town at a very young age, the commissioner realizes that the town is now divided into two rival clans...
Kindy
2009
Film credits
2010s · 3 titles
3.7An Algerian secret agent has to destroy an undercover paramilitary organization that plans to strike against the country and its people.
Gates of the Sun
2015
10.0The film relates the career of Colonel Lotfi, whose real name is Benali Boudghene, since his beginnings as an activist in Tlemcen where, with his classmates from high school, he posted the call of 1 November 1954, addressed by National Liberation Front (FLN) to the Algerian people.
Lotfi
2015
6.0It’s Christmas Eve, but the Algerian taxi driver living in Canada is more caught up in Ramadan. By chance he picks up a compatriot, a former pop star thought dead, and the evening gets more interesting.
Montreal, White City
2016
2000s · 2 titles
6.0Kamel and his brother Bouzid live in Bab el Oued, a working-class neighborhood in Algiers. Kamel is a loner, disillusioned and taciturn. Bouzid, more jovial, is an Internet enthusiast. He spends his time in a cybercafé chatting with girls from all over the world. Without really believing it, he invites them to Algiers. But one day, Laurence, one of his French correspondents, tells him that she accepts his invitation.
Bab El Web
2005
NRThe film recounts the twists and turns of a police investigation into a "mysterious" crime committed in Jijel. Commissioner Kindy, dispatched from Algiers and assisted by the local police, is tasked with conducting the investigation. A native of Jijel but having left the town at a very young age, the commissioner realizes that the town is now divided into two rival clans...
Kindy
2009
1970s · 2 titles
8.0The film traces the story of a patrol of the Algerian National Liberation Army (ALN), whose mission is to transport a prisoner French soldier to the Tunisian border. Through the march of this group of guerrillas we witness the spirit of sacrifice and combativeness of these men from the people. The patrol will be decimated, but a young peasant will take over and complete the mission.
Patrol in the East
1971
10.0It was from the popular song-poem by Mohamed Ben Guittoun that director Mohamed Hazourli (of the Constantine regional station of RTA) wrote the screenplay. Hiziya Bent Ahmeb Bey, 23 years old, lived in southeastern Algeria, in a village called Sidi Khaled. The daughter of a powerful notable of the Dhouaouda tribe, who regularly migrated through the desert, Hiziya was exceptionally beautiful, to the point that other girls were jealous and envious of her, and men succumbed to her charm. But the young woman's heart belonged to Saïd, an orphan taken in as a child by his uncle. They met in secret and married despite family hostility. A month after their wedding, Hiziya died during the transhumance in the desert. The death of his beloved plunged Saïd into deep grief, to the point that he abandoned his possessions and family to wander the desert.
Hiziya
1977