Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1928-01-20 (93 years old)
Deathday
2021-09-10
Place of Birth
Algiers, Algeria
Also known As
Saadi Yacef
ياسف سعدي
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...
1966
as El-Hadi Jaffar
2018
as Self (archive footage)
2007
as Self
2018
1966
as Producer
1965
as Producer
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