Sid Ali Kouiret

Sid Ali Kouiret Arabic ??? ??? ?????? is an Algerian actor born January 3 1933 in Algiers Algeria and died April 5 2015 in the same city Sid Ali Kouiret had a difficult childhood his father a taxi driver often came home drunk and was violent with his mother One day the kid exasperated takes a knife and sticks it in his fathers back He thus found himself in the streets of Algiers left school lived on petty thefts and from the age of 9 took on odd jobs as a shoeshine boy working for the port fishermen At 17 he was a pimp at the port and as he liked to swim to go to the Algiers mole he had to cross Rue de la Marine One fine day he met Mustapha Kateb who in the 1950s managed a amateur theater troupe at Café de Daniel and out of curiosity ends up at Randon Street where Kateb was rehearsing In 1951 he found himself in Berlin with the EIMesrah EIDjazairi troupe then in Paris in 1952 In 1954 he was in Bucharest for the 2nd Festival of Youth and Students for Peace The same year he turned professional and signed with the municipal troupe of Algiers directed by Mahieddine Bachetarzi In 1955 the DST monitored the premises on rue Randon and recorded his comrades He arrived in Marseille and went to Paris where he met Mohamed Boudia Hadj Omar Missoum Nourreddine Bouhired We had FLN cafés singing Min Djibalina he says Mustapha Kateb in 1958 was commissioned to create an artistic troupe to carry the flag of the fight for the independence of Algeria Sid Ali Kouiret joined Tunis and joined the socalled FLN troupe made up of two dramatic and lyrical ensembles with some 35 actors singers musicians dancers and technicians Until 1962 five shows were given in Tunis Saint Petersburg and Moscow but also in Morocco Libya and Iraq After independence he was at the newly created Algerian National Theater TNA and from 1963 he began his brilliant cinematographic career His first role on screen was in Mustapha Badies television adaptation of the play Les Enfants de la Casbah by Abdelhalim Raïs 1963 It was with LOpium et le Bâton 1970 by Ahmed Rachedi that he really established himself followed by many other Algerian and foreign films including The Return of the Prodigal Son 1976 by Youssef Chahine Bloody Fates 1980 by Kheiri Bichara LEmpire des Rêves by JeanPierre Lledo for which he won the best actor prize at the Damascus International Film Festival in 1985 Sid Ali Kouiret retired early from the Algerian National Theater TNA in 1987 He returned to the forefront subsequently notably in Les BasFonds EdDahaliz by Maxime Gorki by Abdelkader Alloula 1982 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller by Fouzia Aït El Hadj 1987 and during the revival of El Bouaboune Les Concierges by Rouiched 1991 In 1992 he played in La Famille Ramdam 1990 a sitcom broadcast by the M6 channel He played in some 40 films and television films throughout his career remaining active until the turn of 2010 Sid Ali Kouiret who suffered from diabetes died on April 5 2015 in Algiers at the age of 82 He is buried in the cemetery of Sidi Embarek Oued Romane in Algiers