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Yacef Saâdi

Yacef Saâdi
  • Name: Yacef Saâdi
  • Birthday: 1928-01-20
  • Also known as: Saadi Yacef,ياسف سعدي
  • Place of birth: Algiers, Algeria
  • Popularity: 0.014
Biography: Yacef Saâdi (20 January 1928 – 10 September 2021) was an Algerian independence fighter, serving as a leader of the National Liberation Front during his country's war of independence. After the Algerian War, Yacef helped produce Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo's film The Battle of Algiers (1966), based on Souvenirs de la Bataille d'Alger. Yacef played a character modeled on his own experiences (named as Djafar) in the battle. He began his professional life as a baker's apprentice. In 1945 he joined the Algerian People's Party (PPA) which was succeeded by the Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties (MTLD) where he was active in the armed wing, the Special Organization between... Read More

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Title Release date
L'Histoire Du Film "La Bataille D'Alger"   as  Self 2018-01-01
La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte   as  Self (archive footage) 2018-01-01
Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms   as  Self 2007-10-11
Terror's Advocate   as  Self 2007-06-06
Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers   as  Self 2004-08-01
The Battle of Algiers   as  El-Hadi Jaffar 1966-09-08