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Himmoud Brahimi
Himoud Brahimi
Acting
Biography
Himoud Brahimi born in Algiers on March 18, 1918, was a poet, inspired writer, swimmer - he broke the world record for freediving in 1956 at the Paris swimming pool - memorable actor of the Algerian National Theater and best cinema Algerian in the 1970s and 80s, (he notably distinguished himself in the film "Tahya Ya Didou" by Mohamed Zinet and "Taxi El Makhfi" (The Clandestine) by Benamar Bakhti), an essential character in the heated debates from then to the Algiers cinema library.
Mohamed Brahimi, baptized "Himoud" by his nanny M'Barka, nicknamed Momo by his French admirers, is a profound a…
Filmography
Movies
Sons of the Earth
Le Clandestin
as Hassan
Cry of Stone
as Salah
Sandstorm
El Anka
as Self
The Olive Tree of Boul'hivet
Tahia Ya Didou !
as Momo, the poet
Heart of the Casbah
The Desert Divers
as Cheikh Ali
Daughter of the Sands
as The jester