Fethi Haddaoui Movies
- 2003
Algerian filmmaker Abdelkrim Bahloul writes and directs the drama The Assassinated Sun, based on actual events in the newly independent Algeria of the 1970s. Following the country's liberation in 1962, the police didn't take kindly to gay poet Jean Senac (Charles Berling). Nevertheless, he was appreciated by a large liberal audience. The police also don't approve of writing student Hamid (Mehdi Dehbi) who writes and stars in a French-language play during a national theater competition. Senac, however, enjoys the play and proceeds to develop a friendship with Hamid. Even though the two were never publicly declared lovers, Hamid becomes the main suspect when Senac is found murdered. The Assassinated Sun won awards at the 2003 San Sebastián International Film Festival and the 2003 Montréal World Film Festival. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Charles Berling, Mehdi Dehbi, (more)
- 1988
When war breaks out, a female flight attendant flees Beruit, Lebanon to search for her missing sweetheart in this violent political drama. Her search brings her to a church and a band of guerillas led by a sadistic madman. Jalila Baccar, Lamine Nahdi, and Fadhel Jaziri co-star with Fethi Haddaoui, Sahira Ben Ammar, and Fatma Ben Saidane in this award-winning feature. The film received the Bronze Tanit at the Carthage Film Festival in 1988 and won the International Critics Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1989. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jalila Baccar, Lamine Nahdi, (more)
- 1987
Filmed on location in Tunisia, the four-hour Italian TV production A Child Called Jesus mixes Scripture with Speculation. The film attempts to fill in the "missing years" of $Jesus, from ages 3 through 12. When King Herod (Hatteb Semlali) fearing that the Messiah has indeed been born, orders that all Hebrew male children under the age of three be slain, Joseph (Bekim Fehmu) moves his family near Egypt. Here, Jesus (Matteo Bellina), sensing His divinity, expresses a desire to return to Nazareth. Travelling homeward with His mother Mary (Carmen San Martin), Jesus flashes forward to events that will unfold in his adult life (Alessandro Gassman plays the grown Jesus in these scenes). Originally presented in two parts, A Child Called Jesus was syndicated to American TV stations during the last week of November in 1989. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
