Med Hondo

Directing

Med Hondo

Born — Died

1935-05-04 — 2019-03-02

Place of birth

Ain Beni Mathar, Maroc

Known for

Directing

Credits

47 titles

Med Hondo was a Mauritanian film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and voice actor. He emigrated to France in 1959 and began to work in film during the 1960s. He received critical acclaim for his 1967 directorial début Soleil O. Son vrai nom est Mohamed Abid né le samedi 4 mai 1935, à Ain Beni Mathar au Maroc et décédé le samedi 2 mars 2019 à l'âge de 83 ans au 14ème arrondissement de Paris.

Known for

Police Commissioner Moulin poster
7.1

The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.

Police Commissioner Moulin

1976

Asterix and the Vikings poster
6.1

Asterix and Obelix have been given a tough mission: Transform the chief's lazy nephew Justforkix into a warrior. When the Vikings abduct him and bring him back to their homeland, Asterix and Obelix must travel to Norway to rescue Justforkix.

Asterix and the Vikings

2006

Masculin Féminin poster
7.2

Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism in society, while Madeleine just wants to be successful. The story is told in a series of 15 unrelated vignettes.

Masculin Féminin

1966

Belphegor, or The Phantom of the Louvre poster
7.0

Four episodes chronicle a mysterious phantom who appears in the Musée du Louvre in Paris at night. Neither guards nor police are able to make an arrest. But a curious young man tries to break the ice and discover what drives the creature and its activities.

Belphegor, or The Phantom of the Louvre

1965

Funky Cops poster
6.9

Ace Anderson and Dick Kowalski are two semi-competent cops in San Francisco during the late 1970s. They show more attention towards appearing cool and disco dancing, but finish the cases by the end of the day. They are assisted by their disgruntled police chief Captain Dobbs, plucky reporter Miss Lee, and fellow disco lover Boogaloo.

Funky Cops

2002

Shock Troops poster
6.7

A French resistance group free twelve soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there's an additional detainee among them suspected of being an enemy spy.

Shock Troops

1967

Film credits

2000s · 4 titles

1970s · 4 titles

The Ambassadors poster
5.8

“Each of you is an ambassador, and we are sure that each of you will be the best ambassador of our country.” This is how the film begins; a speech to emigrant workers for France. Salah left his three sisters and his mother to become an ambassador, going to work on a Defense site, wading in the mud, he works with a jackhammer. Salah wanders in search of work and housing. Coming up against racism from the owners claiming the respectability of the building and the good neighborhood, he finds himself in a hotel in the Goutte d'Or district. The body of Mehdi, friend of Salah, was found in the Canal Saint-Martin, murdered by a fascist commando, and Ali died of a bullet, killed by a racist janitor. Faced with crimes that remain unpunished, Salah and his friends organize, unite with the French working class to defend their lives and their right to work.

The Ambassadors

1975

The Spiral poster
6.8

Documentary on the events provoked by the systematic attack of imperialism on the Popular Unity government in Chile, presided by Salvador Allende.

The Spiral

1976

Safrana or Freedom of Speech poster
7.3

Four young African workers attempt to break the spell of their poverty-stricken lives in Paris by looking to small farmers on the Gold Coast for information adaptable to their own country.

Safrana or Freedom of Speech

1978

No artwork available
NR

Taken during the filming of "West Indies," this film shows the making of the monumental set in the middle of the former Citroën factory, as well as backstage activity and rehearsals on the set.

The Making of West Indies

1979

1960s · 8 titles

Masculin Féminin poster
7.2

Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism in society, while Madeleine just wants to be successful. The story is told in a series of 15 unrelated vignettes.

Masculin Féminin

1966

Shock Troops poster
6.7

A French resistance group free twelve soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there's an additional detainee among them suspected of being an enemy spy.

Shock Troops

1967

A Walk with Love and Death poster
5.9

During France’s Hundred Years’ War, a Parisian student seeks refuge by the sea and falls in love with an aristocrat. As they find shelter in a monastery, their romance is overshadowed by the ongoing conflict between peasants and noblemen.

A Walk with Love and Death

1969

Les verts pâturages poster
5.0

A French TV movie directed by Jean-Christophe Averty , broadcast on December 24, 1964 . The Old Testament set in Louisiana with an all black cast.

Les verts pâturages

1964

Zita poster
5.0

Because "Tante Zita" main theme is death: a twenty-year old girl, Annie (Shimkus) lives with her mother and her aunt (both played by first-class actresses Suzanne Flon and Katina Paxinou). The auntie is dying, and for the first time in her life, Annie has to cope with death. One night, she finds it too hard to bear, and leaving home where the old woman is suffering, she begins to hang around in Paris. She will meet people, and, from dusk to dawn, she will learn to leave her childhood behind and to grow into a woman.

Zita

1968

La Tragédie du Roi Christophe poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

La Tragédie du Roi Christophe

1965

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Artaud

1966

Môl poster
NR

A young fisherman dreams of motorizing his boat to make his work easier. His dream becomes reality, thanks to his courage and his determination but causes conflict between traditional values and the modern notion of progress.

Môl

1966

Series credits

Behind the camera

West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty poster
6.5

Aboard a giant slave ship in an abandoned Citroën factory, the history of the West Indies is traced through several centuries of French oppression. The ship becomes a stage for the people to tell stories via song and dance—from their enslavement to their displacement in Metropolitan France.

West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty

1979

West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty poster
6.5

Aboard a giant slave ship in an abandoned Citroën factory, the history of the West Indies is traced through several centuries of French oppression. The ship becomes a stage for the people to tell stories via song and dance—from their enslavement to their displacement in Metropolitan France.

West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty

1979

West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty poster
6.5

Aboard a giant slave ship in an abandoned Citroën factory, the history of the West Indies is traced through several centuries of French oppression. The ship becomes a stage for the people to tell stories via song and dance—from their enslavement to their displacement in Metropolitan France.

West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty

1979

Soleil O poster
6.8

An educated native of Mauritania tries to find work in Paris but encounters difficulty because of his race.

Soleil O

1973

Soleil O poster
6.8

An educated native of Mauritania tries to find work in Paris but encounters difficulty because of his race.

Soleil O

1973

Black Light poster
7.0

When a man's best friend is shot in cold blood by two corrupt policemen, he must track down the only eyewitnesses, who have deported to Mali.

Black Light

1994

Black Light poster
7.0

When a man's best friend is shot in cold blood by two corrupt policemen, he must track down the only eyewitnesses, who have deported to Mali.

Black Light

1994

Black Light poster
7.0

When a man's best friend is shot in cold blood by two corrupt policemen, he must track down the only eyewitnesses, who have deported to Mali.

Black Light

1994

The Black Wogs, Your Neighbors poster
6.7

A lucid, sincere and intricate political film, it demonstrates how French neocolonialism exploits migrant labor and exerts a cultural imperialism over their minds.

The Black Wogs, Your Neighbors

1974

The Black Wogs, Your Neighbors poster
6.7

A lucid, sincere and intricate political film, it demonstrates how French neocolonialism exploits migrant labor and exerts a cultural imperialism over their minds.

The Black Wogs, Your Neighbors

1974

My Neighbours poster
NR

African migrants in Paris talk about everyday life and racism on the labour and housing markets. The chanson from which the film takes its title sings of misery on people’s own doorstep. Hondo then switches to another mode to continue his analysis of social conditions: never has the post-colonial state of the world been summarised as succinctly as in the closing animated sequence.

My Neighbours

1971

Sarraounia poster
6.7

On 2 January 1899, starting from the French Sudan, a French column under the command of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is sent against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the Cameroon. Those captains and their African mercenary troops destroy and kill everything they find on their path. The French authorities try to stop them sending orders and a second troop but the captains kill the emissaries who reach them. Sarraounia, queen of the Aznas, have heard about the exactions. Clever in war tactics and in witchcraft, she decides to resist and stop those mad men.

Sarraounia

1986

Sarraounia poster
6.7

On 2 January 1899, starting from the French Sudan, a French column under the command of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is sent against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the Cameroon. Those captains and their African mercenary troops destroy and kill everything they find on their path. The French authorities try to stop them sending orders and a second troop but the captains kill the emissaries who reach them. Sarraounia, queen of the Aznas, have heard about the exactions. Clever in war tactics and in witchcraft, she decides to resist and stop those mad men.

Sarraounia

1986

Sarraounia poster
6.7

On 2 January 1899, starting from the French Sudan, a French column under the command of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is sent against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the Cameroon. Those captains and their African mercenary troops destroy and kill everything they find on their path. The French authorities try to stop them sending orders and a second troop but the captains kill the emissaries who reach them. Sarraounia, queen of the Aznas, have heard about the exactions. Clever in war tactics and in witchcraft, she decides to resist and stop those mad men.

Sarraounia

1986

Fatima, the Algerian Woman of Dakar poster
NR

In the aftermath of the Algerian War, a young Algerian woman reaches a strange reconciliation with the Senegalese officer who raped and impregnated her.

Fatima, the Algerian Woman of Dakar

2004

Fatima, the Algerian Woman of Dakar poster
NR

In the aftermath of the Algerian War, a young Algerian woman reaches a strange reconciliation with the Senegalese officer who raped and impregnated her.

Fatima, the Algerian Woman of Dakar

2004

Fatima, the Algerian Woman of Dakar poster
NR

In the aftermath of the Algerian War, a young Algerian woman reaches a strange reconciliation with the Senegalese officer who raped and impregnated her.

Fatima, the Algerian Woman of Dakar

2004

Polisario, a people in arms poster
NR

This film is a testimony. These are the images and sounds recorded throughout the area of ​​struggle of the Saharawi people and they testify to their will to live free at home while placing the "Sahroui problem" in a real context. Ex-Spanish colony whose wealth is considerable, Western Sahara should, like many African countries, gain independence according to United Nations resolutions.

Polisario, a people in arms

1979

We shall have the whole of death to sleep poster
9.0

Documentary filmed over a period of four months, from 25 December 1975 to 5 March 1976, in the area of the former Spanish Sahara claimed by the people who lived there, the Saharawis, a people now mobilised and in arms (the Polisario Front) against Morocco and Mauritania, two states that have signed an agreement to share the territory.

We shall have the whole of death to sleep

1977

Watani: A World Without Evil poster
8.0

Two men of different backgrounds lose their respective jobs, setting off a series of events that brings them together in tragic circumstances.

Watani: A World Without Evil

1998

Watani: A World Without Evil poster
8.0

Two men of different backgrounds lose their respective jobs, setting off a series of events that brings them together in tragic circumstances.

Watani: A World Without Evil

1998

Hunger Of The World poster
7.0

A documentary that critiques the neo-colonial destruction of indigenous African agriculture and economies, resulting in mass starvation.

Hunger Of The World

1981

Ballade aux sources poster
NR

BALLADE AUX SOURCES, Med Hondo’s first film, is a documentary about the journey of an African emigrant through his native land shortly after the independence of North Africa. This film allows us to glimpse the themes that are dear to Med Hondo: pan-Africanism and pre-colonial African history. It is presented as “restoration in progress” without sound, introduced by Annabelle Aventurin (cine-archives).

Ballade aux sources

1965