Keltoum (Aïcha Adjouri)

Keltoum (Aïcha Adjouri)

Keltoum, whose real name is Aïcha Adjouri, is an Algerian actress, born February 4, 1916 in Blida, and died November 11, 2010 in Algiers. Figure and dean of Algerian theater and cinema, Keltoum crosses paths with Mahieddine Bachtarzi who recruits her for a small role as a dancer in an operetta. In 1937, she co-starred with Rachid Ksentini in Marriage by Telephone and appeared in most of the shows on the famous "Mahieddine tours" in Algeria, North Africa and Europe. It also happened that the rigors of the colonial law of the time came to sanction the actress. In its edition of March 21, 1950, the daily newspaper Algiers Republican reports a fine of 50,000 francs imposed on Mahieddine by the municipality, the layoff for a month of the actress Keltoum and the ban on performing on the stage. of the Opera made to the Tunisian singer Ali Riahi, on the grounds that the piece El-Ouadjib and the songs during the performance included passages deemed "seditious". (Memoirs of M. Bachetarzi) Member of the Arab troupe of the Opera of Algiers when it was created in 1947 under the direction of Bachtarzi, alongside many stars including Mohammed Touri, Djelloul Bachdjerrah, Réda Falaki and Mustapha Kateb, she interrupted her activities in 1956 with the independance War. She is back on stage with the creation, in 1963, of the National Theater in the company of Mustapha Kateb, Mohamed Boudia, Abderrahmane Kaki, Allel el-Mouhib and Abdelkader Alloula. Until the turn of 1990, she will have played in several dozen plays. After Mort d'un commercial voyageur by Arthur Miller by Fouzia Aït El-Hadj (1987), followed by La Maison de Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca, staged by Allel el-Mouhib, his last appearance dates back to 1991 , with the cover of El Bouaboune (Les Concierges) by Rouiched. At the cinema, she appeared in La Septième Porte by French filmmaker André Swobada with, in the main roles of Leila and Ali, on the one hand, Maria Casarès and Georges Marchal for the French version and, on the other hand, Keltoum and Bechir Gabsi for the Arabic version. She will shine especially in a magnificent silent and stripped interpretation of mother courage in the Vent des Aurès by Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina in 1966. Asked about his meeting with the actress, Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina confided that it was on the recommendation of André Swobada whom he met and chose Keltoum for the Vent des Aurès. She will play again in Hassan Terro (1968), December (1972) and Chronicle of the Brazen Years (1974) by the same director, then in Les Déracinés (Beni Hendel) by Lamine Merbah (1976), Le Vent du sud (Rih el- djanoub, 1975) and Hassan Taxi (1982) by Mohamed Slim Riad, The Roaring Years of the Twist by Mahmoud Zemmouri (1986) or even Hassan Niya by Ghaouti Bendedouche (1989). A figure of theater and cinema in Algeria, Keltoum was given a tribute in March 2010 at the initiative of the association of filmmakers Lumières. Ill, she could not be present at the ceremony. Keltoum was buried in the cemetery of El Alia.

  • Title: Keltoum (Aïcha Adjouri)
  • Popularity: 0.948
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1916-02-03
  • Place of Birth: Blida, Algéria
  • Homepage: http://africine.org/personne/keltoum-aicha-adjouri/25243
  • Also Known As: Aïcha Adjouri, كلتوم, عائشة أدجوري, Kaltoum
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Keltoum (Aïcha Adjouri) Movies

  • 1979
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    Le Retour

    Le Retour

    10 1979 HD

    In the early 1970s, Lakhdar, an Algerian peasant, is forced to leave his desert land and his family for France, but immigration weighs on him and he...

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  • 1977
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    The Uprooted

    The Uprooted

    10 1977 HD

    In 1880, in colonized Algeria, it was decided that the Algerian peasants of the Ouarsenis mountains would see their lands dispossessed in favor of...

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  • 1986
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    Les Folles Années du Twist

    Les Folles Années du Twist

    5.5 1986 HD

    A small town in Algeria, in the years 1960-1962. Two young idle boys and rock fans, Boualem and Salah, try to survive in the turmoil of war, taking...

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  • 1975
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    Chronicle of the Years of Fire

    Chronicle of the Years of Fire

    6.3 1975 HD

    A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak of the revolution on November 1, 1954, the...

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  • 1963
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    La parole est au témoin

    La parole est au témoin

    10 1963 HD

    Mustapha, a cab driver in Paris, charges a customer in a hurry, without realizing that he is in a hurry to escape his pursuers after robbing a...

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  • 1975
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    Wind from the South

    Wind from the South

    10 1975 HD

    Néfissa, a student in Algiers, returns to her village in the south in the summer. Her father wants her to marry the mayor but she wants to...

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  • 1987
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    Cry of Stone

    Cry of Stone

    10 1987 HD

    Led by Daoudi, a disenchanted architect, a group of Constantines return to their village in deep Algeria where a young man delivers to them words of...

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  • 1989
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    Hassan Niya

    Hassan Niya

    10 1989 HD

    The story of Hassan, the handyman in the inn of his sister Aïcha, widowed and childless. A whole series of incidents, misunderstandings, will...

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  • 1947
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    The Seventh Door

    The Seventh Door

    10 1947 HD

    An old man about to die gives all his fortune to a young beggar he meets in an Arabian town. He takes him to his house (now the poor man's property)...

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  • 1961
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    C'Est Pour Demain

    C'Est Pour Demain

    10 1961 HD

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  • 1971
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    La Mission

    La Mission

    10 1971 HD

    An Algerian peasant (fellah), crushed by the soldiers of the French colonial army, decides to resist. His young wife finds herself, despite herself,...

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  • 1965
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    So Young a Peace

    So Young a Peace

    10 1965 HD

    The first fictional feature film produced in Algeria after independence, this film addresses one of the most worrying problems: that of childhood....

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  • 1967
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    Hassan Terro

    Hassan Terro

    9 1967 HD

    While he tries by all means to stay out of the bloody upheavals caused by the battle of Algiers, Hassan, an honest and naive father, unknowingly...

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  • 1967
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    The Winds of the Aures

    The Winds of the Aures

    6.4 1967 HD

    Le Vent des Aurès – the first road movie of Algerian cinema – describes the transformations of the daily life of the Algerian...

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