Hadj Smaine Mohamed Seghir
Hadj Smaine is an Algerian actor, director, and man of stage who was born in 1932 in Constantine, Algeria,[1][2]
At that period,the city of Constantine was known for religion, culture, art, as well as Algerian Arabo-Islamic traditions and customs.
Hadj Smain Constantine grew up alongside one of his family and friends loving art and culture in general, movies, music, scouting, sports like swimming in Sidi M'Sid Swimming pool. Scout with friends, playing Hadj Smain small skits inspired by the movies they watched in the halls of the city. Friends, they went to film club Constantine (e.g. People's University, Centre Abdelhamid Ben Badis now). The Popular University was also the conservatory of the city of Constantine, were awarded to local associations for musicians, amateur theatre, for Scouts and others. The Popular University also had other administrative duties as it depended on a state structure, the French colonial administration.
Over time, Hadj Smain had joined the theatre group "The Thousand and One Nights" with other friends of Scouting, late Hassan Belhadj (Algeria's first director of the Cinema, great actor, patriot and former collaborator M'Hamed Yazid ) and Abdelkrim Menai (former scout scouts Muslims). After several years of theatrical practice, Hadj Smain leaves the troupe "The Thousand and One Night" to create a theatre without a "sketch", similar to that practices in Europe and the Arab world (especially in Egypt).
- 1965 : The Battle of Algiers, (La Bataglia di Algeri) de Gillo Pontecorvo
- 1966 : The Winds of the Aures de Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
- 1968 : Patrol to the east de Amar Laskri
- 1970 : Children of November de Moussa Haddad
- 1971 : After the oil
- 1974 : Chronicle of the Years of Fire de Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
- The Adventures of a hero, Moughamarat Batal de Merzak Allouache
- Beni Hendel, Les Déracinés de Lamine Merbah
- The last image de Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
- 1977 : El Harik de Mustapha Badia
- 1978 : El Intihar de Mustapha Badia
- 1986 : The man who watched the windows de Merzak Allouache
- 1982 : Mariage de dupes de Hadj Rahim
- 1987 : Cri de pierre de Bouguermouh
- 2010 : Axis of Evil ou l'Axe du Mal de Anouar Hadj Smaine en tant que Producteur Executif