Mohamed Fellag
Mohand Fellag (in Arabic محمد فلاق; in Berber ⴼⴻⵍⵍⴰⴳ), known as Mohamed Fellag or simply "Fellag" or sometimes Mohamed Saïd Fellag, is an Algerian actor, humorist and writer, born March 31, 1950 in Azeffoun in Algeria. Mohamed Fellag (ⴼⴻⵍⵍⴰⴳ in Tifinagh) was born in Azeffoun in Kabylia. He only spoke Kabyle until the family moved to Algiers when he was eight years old. He then learned Algerian Arabic and French.
His father, an FLN activist during the war, was killed in a car accident in 1965 during a mission (he was 15). He studied theater at the National Institute of Dramatic and Choreographic Art of Algiers, located in Bordj el Kiffan, from 1968 to 1972. He left the National Theater and founded his company with former students. They write texts, go on tour, play in prisons, factories, etc. He emigrated to Quebec in 1978, then to Paris in 1982, living from small jobs. In September 1985, he returned to Algeria and was hired by the Algerian National Theater to perform "The Art of Comedy" by Eduardo De Filippo. He worked as an actor and director, and began writing his texts, including his first show, "Les Aventures de Tchop" in 1986. He became a star thanks to performances mixing Berber, Arabic and French.
In 1991, "Babor Australia" was created in Kabyle, then performed in Algerian Arabic in Paris. At the Théâtre de l'Europe in 1992, it was performed alternately in Kabyle and Algerian Arabic. "Babor Australia", updated to "A boat for Australia" in 2002, is based on a rumor, evoking the imminent arrival in Algiers of an Australian boat supposed to take unemployed people to provide them with employment and accommodation there, which caused a queue in front of the Australian embassy.
He directed the Béjaïa theater for a while in 1992-939.
The Algerian Civil War broke out, Fellag went on tour in 1994 with "Babor Australia", in Algeria then in Tunisia. At the end of the year, he settled in Tunis where he created "Delirium". In 1995, he went into exile in Paris. He writes there "Djurdjurassique Bled", which is represented alternately in Kabyle and Algerian Arabic. Then, he adapted it into French and this first show in French, created in December 1997, earned him the 1997-1998 Critics' Union Prize, theatrical revelation of the year.
Fellag lived with the actress Marianne Épin, who died on December 9, 2017, who staged several of his last shows.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.0307 |
| Birthday | 1950-03-31 |
| Place of Birth | Algeria, Azzefoun |
| Also Known As | محمد فلاق, Fellag, |
2007
Intimate Enemies
6.43/86
A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.
Watch Now
Intimate Enemies
2009
Les Barons
5.7/42
The Barons have a motto: "slack off more to live longer." Every human being is born with a credit of steps. Every step you take brings you closer to d...
Watch Now
Les Barons
1998
The Kid from Chaaba
6.393/14
Le Gone du Chaâba (The Kid of the Chaaba), translated into English as Shantytown Kid by Naima Wolf, is an autobiographical novel by Azouz Begag about...
Watch Now
The Kid from Chaaba
2002
Flowers of Blood
6.25/8
In custody after she murders her middle aged photographer lover, a fourteen year old Pam reflects back on the bohemian life she spent with her mother...
Watch Now
Flowers of Blood
1990
From Hollywood to Tamanrasset
7.75/4
On the outskirts of Algiers, Algeria. the arrival of the satellite dishes governs the lives of the inhabitants. Dissatisfied with their lives, they th...
Watch Now
From Hollywood to Tamanrasset
2012
Zarafa
6.8/122
Inspired by the true story of the first giraffe to visit France, Zarafa is a sumptuously animated and stirring adventure, and a throwback to a bygone...
Watch Now
Zarafa
2011
Monsieur Lazhar
7.17/350
During a harsh Montréal winter, an elementary-school class is left reeling after its teacher commits suicide. Bachir Lazhar, a charismatic Algerian im...
Watch Now
Monsieur Lazhar
1989
Hassan Niya
10/1
The story of Hassan, the handyman in the inn of his sister Aïcha, widowed and childless. A whole series of incidents, misunderstandings, will punctuat...
Watch Now
Hassan Niya
1991
Sons of the Earth
9/2
A drama set a little before the 1920s, in which scattered news, stories and rumors spread the presence of a new wealth, oil, leading to the suspicion...
Watch Now
Sons of the Earth
2006
Fellag - Djurdjurassique bled
10/1
Watch Now
Fellag - Djurdjurassique bled
2010
Top Floor Left Wing
5.8/10
Like every morning, François Echeveria, a bailiff, should have been able to make a seizure in a suburban city, then quietly return home. But that day,...
Watch Now
Top Floor Left Wing
L'ère des Ninjas
0/0
Watch Now
L'ère des Ninjas
1989
Cocktail khorotov
7/1
From 1978 to 1985, he participated in several theatrical productions, before returning to Algeria in 1985 to join the National Theatre of Algeria to p...
Watch Now
Cocktail khorotov
2007
Michou d'Auber
6.391/78
Set in France during the struggle for Algerian independence, Messaoud's mother is terminally ill and his father, needing to work long hours in the fac...
Watch Now
Michou d'Auber
2004
Le Dernier chameau
0/0
Watch Now
Le Dernier chameau
1991
Un bateau pour l’Australie
10/1
Watch Now
Un bateau pour l’Australie
1977
Barrières
10/1
Tahar, son of a wealthy family, is trying to preserve his privileged status despite the social changes brought about by the revolution. Tinted with hi...
Watch Now
Barrières
2010
Ni reprise, ni échangée
6/15
Juliette, a mother of wealthy family and a little snobbish, has gradually developed a kind of generalized contempt against his fellows. One day a bunc...
Watch Now
Ni reprise, ni échangée
2002
Fellag: Un bateau pour l'Australie
0/0
Watch Now
Fellag: Un bateau pour l'Australie
1984
Liberty at Night
6.346/13
In the mist of the Algerian events, a man finds a fugitive happiness beside a local woman.
Watch Now
Liberty at Night
2005
Where Fig Trees Grow
10/2
An ensemble piece set in a North African neighbourhood in Toulon.
Watch Now
Where Fig Trees Grow
1989
Lumières
10/1
Long quest for a director specializing in commissioned films, who after a depression rediscovers his loved ones, his Casbah district, himself. Taken i...
Watch Now
Lumières
2012
What the Day Owes the Night
7.682/236
Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, wi...
Watch Now
What the Day Owes the Night
2012
Je vous ai compris
8.7/3
Watch Now
Je vous ai compris
2010
Bacon on the Side
4.877/154
Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families...
Watch Now
Bacon on the Side
2011
The Rabbi's Cat
7.029/188
The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's te...
Watch Now
The Rabbi's Cat
2005
Voisins, voisines
5.333/3
The Mozart Residence is home to several "new owners" of all origins: a new concierge, Paco, of Spanish origin, who has just been released from prison,...
Watch Now
Voisins, voisines
2018
Me and El Che
0/0
GO is not just an aging college teacher. He still is the young 18 year-old idealist who dared to engaged in social and political action to defend his...
Watch Now
Me and El Che
2008
Il faut sauver Saïd
0/0
10-year-old Saïd, a child of Algerian immigrants, is talented, motivated and would like to be a good student. But the conditions at the collège he att...
Watch Now
Il faut sauver Saïd
2008
La Veuve tatouée
6/1
Colette, fifty years old and devoted to her children, sees her life turned upside down the day she inherits her aunt's house. Indeed, this mother of a...
Watch Now
La Veuve tatouée
1986
Sombréro
10/1
Sombrero is a 1986 crime comedy by Algerian director Rabah Bouberras, produced by ENTV. A gang smuggles precious diamonds hidden in a Mexican sombrero...
Watch Now
Sombréro
2001
Inch'Allah dimanche
6.538/13
The story of an immigrant woman struggling against old world traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in Fra...
Watch Now