Born in 1941 in Tlemcen, Djamel Bendeddouche discovered the world of television and cinema very young, just after adolescence. He was barely 17 years old when he started as an actor. The first film in which he acted dates back to 1958-1959, entitled “Fadila” by Francis Mischkind. It is a short film depicting the friendship of two children and shot in the Casbah of Algiers in the middle of the Algerian war. “Fadila” won the Grand Prix du cinéma at the Salon de l’enfance in 1959 and was awarded by ...