Mehdi Charef

Mehdi Charef (born October 21, 1952 in Maghnia , Algeria ) is a writer , film director and playwright of Algerian origin living in France .

biography

Charef came to France at the age of ten, where he lived in various cities and also in the slums of the Parisian metropolitan area. From 1970 to 1983 he worked as a scissors grinder in a factory. He came to film when Costa-Gavras advised him to film his novel Le Thé au harem d'Archi Ahmed . In 2005 he wrote his first play entitled "1962" , which is about the end of the Algerian war .

Awards

He has been nominated for several awards for his films. For “ Le Thé au harem d'Archimède ” he received the “Award of the Youth” at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival , the “ Jean Vigo Prize ” in the same year and the French “ César ” in 1986 " Best first work " category . With “Au pays des Juliets” he was nominated for the “Palme d'Or” at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival and then received the “ Prize of the Ecumenical Jury ”. In 2002 he received the “Kodak Award” for “La Fille de Keltoum” at the International Festival of Love Films in Mons .

bibliography

• 1983: Le Thé au harem d'Archimède . Mercure de France, Paris.
  • 1986. German by Christel Kauder: Tea in Archimedes' harem . Beck & Glückler Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau.
• 1989: Le Harki de Mériem .
• 1999: La Maison d'Alexina .
• 2006: A bras le cœur .

Filmography

• 1984: Le Thé au harem d'Archimède ( English : Tea in the Harem of Archimedes ), film and screenplay
• 1986: Miss Mona , film and screenplay
• 1987: Camomille ( Eng .: Hidden Passion - Camomille ), film and screenplay
• 1991: Au pays des Juliets (German: One day and one night ), film and screenplay
• 1995: Pigeon vole (German: free as a bird ; TV film), film and screenplay
• 1999: La Maison d'Alexina (German: Learning to Live ; TV film), film and screenplay
• 2000: Marie-Line , film and screenplay
• 2001: La Fille de Keltoum (German: daughter of Keltoum ), film and screenplay
• 2005: All the Invisible Children (segment "Tanza"; German: All children of the world )
• 2007: Cartouches gauloises , director.
• 2014: Graziella , with Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu ; Director.

literature

• Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink: Fictions of a Collective Trauma. The end of the Algerian war at the Mehdi Charef plant . In: Doris Eibl, Gerhild Fuchs, Birgit Mertz-Baumgartner (eds.): Cultures à la dérive - cultures entre les rives: Border crossings between cultures, media and genres - Festschrift for Ursula Mathis-Moser on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Königshausen & Neumann , Würzburg 2010, pp. 324–335

Web links

• Literature by and about Mehdi Charef in the catalog of the German National Library
• Mehdi Charef in the Internet Movie Database (English)