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Mustapha El Anka (real name Mustapha Aït Ouarab), born April 6, 1926, is an Algerian singer and actor. He is also credited under the name Mustapha Halo. He is the oldest child of the famous musician and master of Chaâbi El Hadj M'hamed El Anka.
He obtained his school certificate at the age of 13 and subsequently joined the musical troupe led by his father to become the drabki (darbouka player) of the orchestra. In 1947, he moved to Paris and learned to play the guitar, banjo and mandolin. he plays on stage and sings songs about exile in Arabic and Kabyle, for an audience of Algerian emigrants.
Twelve years later, French radio and television recruited him as technical advisor and section head. In this capacity, he attended the recording of records in Arabic and Kabyle and met great artists such as Mohamed Abdelwahab and Farid El Atrache. Touched by the exile of his son, Hadj M’Hamed El Anka appealed to him to return through a song in Kabyle “Izrin Yeghlev Lehmali”. Mustapha will respond to his father with the song in Arabic “Ya Abi Ya Abi” which will be a great success. During his exile, Mustapha married a Spanish woman, but, discreetly, little is known about his private life and his escapade outside Algeria. At one point he joined the FLN troupe and recorded “El Qvayel”. After independence, he returned to Algeria and joined the newly nationalized Algerian National Theater. he became a singer in Haddad El-Djileli’s orchestra. at the same time, he played in several plays, encouraged by Mustapha Kateb. confirming his acting gifts, the son of the great “El Anka” tried cinema in 1968 and launched a new career with success.
At the beginning of 1970, he joined the Algerian Popular Theater troupe (TTP) directed by Hassan El Hassani, who had played a major role in bringing theater to the most remote areas. he plays alongside Tayeb Abou El Hassan, Kaci Ksentini and Hamid Nemri, notably as a country guard in “Ti Goule ou Ti Goule Pas”.
Mustapha El Anka ends up abandoning singing to devote himself fully to comedy on the small and big screen. the greatest directors will call on him and will play in the cults “Le Charbonnier” by Mohamed Bouamari, “Prends Dix Mille Balles et Casse-Toi”, “Les Folles Années Du Twist” by Mahmoud Zemmouri, “La Dernier Image” by Mohamed Lakhdar Hamina and many others, in all, he will play in around sixty films. His last role will be in “El Ouelf Saïb” by Mohamed Hilmi, released in 1993, and which he will not have time to see.
Mustapha El Anka died on November 3, 1993 and was buried in the El-Kettar cemetery.
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27 August 1986
In a working-class immigrant neighborhood slated for demolition, Jo, the son of Ali, known as the Rescuer from the Algerian war, lives idle and delinquent, committing small assaults to pay for his drugs.
02 January 1979
In one of the tribes of the Algerian Sahara, everyone awaits the arrival of the hero who will defend the rights of the poor.
02 January 1973
Film describes the miserable existence of a charcoal-burner who is barely able to feed his family. His search for work in town ends in failure and he is forced to return to his village.
01 January 1976
Maamar (Sid Ali Kouiret), a young fisherman working in a small port in western Algeria, is forced to sell his goods at a discount every day to Si Khelifa (Abdelhalim Rais), owner of many trucks and a cannery where the wives work fishermen.
25 July 1990
On the outskirts of Algiers, Algeria. the arrival of the satellite dishes governs the lives of the inhabitants.
26 February 1986
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 great care not to get involved.
01 January 1982
An arranged marriage as seen through the eyes of an unhappy young Algerian woman.
01 January 1990
The Second World War. French authorities ban political parties and unions. In Algeria, the leaders of political and trade union organizations were arrested and interned in "surveillance" camps with more than 2,000 French and foreigners: communist activists, trade unionists, brigadists, Spanish republicans and other opponents of the Vichy regime.
01 January 1989
Long quest for a director specializing in commissioned films, who after a depression rediscovers his loved ones, his Casbah district, himself.
02 June 1986
Seen through the filtered lens of boyhood memories, award-winning director Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina crafted this half-fictional, half-autobiographical account of a brief period in the history of an Algerian village.
01 January 1992
Algiers. From the port to the souks, passing through the Jardin d'Essai, Dominique Cabrera transports us to the land where she was born, on the other side of the Mediterranean "where the sea is saltier".
17 December 1980
Ali, an Algerian crane operator, takes with philosophy the bullying suffered by immigrants like him. His existence changes radically the day he wins the lottery.
02 January 1993
Like every year in Zitouna, a bear handler passes by. With his creature, he comes to challenge the small community.
16 February 1991
A billionaire Charles de Boisleve becomes a friend of a petty criminal Rachid after two of them meet in the supermarket.
02 January 1993
The story of a family in the instability and violence that shook Algeria during the riots of October 1988 in the midst of the rise of fundamentalism and intolerance, disappointments and prohibitions, corruption, nepotism and abuse of power.
15 November 1989
27 years after 1962, Antoine returns to Algiers...
01 January 1990
An Algerian music composer and his friends live a thrilling story, full of twists and turns.
05 June 1982
A stubborn director who wants to rediscover the Algiers of his childhood comes up against the “Hol�
19 January 1983
The story of the post-independence nationalization of the mill of Monsieur Fabre, an old man attached to the land of Algeria where he was born.
07 February 1982
Selim Mechoubine, a young man of 28, is the eldest of a large family. In the cramped accommodation he shares with his parents, brothers and sisters.
01 July 1983
Years after Algeria gained independence, war continues to claim lives in Soulima, a border village surrounded by mines, whose victims are too numerous to count.
02 January 1981
Two young Algerians born in France leave the Paris region to return with their parents to the village of their origins.
02 October 1992
The story of a family divided ideologically and politically in Algeria in the 1990s, under the helpless gaze of the mother, played by the brilliant Doudja Achachi, the bearer of centuries-old traditions.
