Mustapha Badie

Biography

Director and actor born in Algiers, Arezki Berkouk (أرزقي برقوق) made his debut in the municipal troupe of the Arab theater of the Algiers Opera, created by Mahieddine Bachtarzi and Mustapha Kateb, before acquiring training at the former RTF . At independence, under the name Mustapha Badie, he shot Our Mothers, a feature-length drama inspired by "Children of the Casbah", the play by Abdelhalim Raïs. With "La Nuit a Peur du Soleil" then, in the form of an imposing fresco lasting more than three ...