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Mostéfa Djadjam
Mostefa Djadjam
Born in 1952 in Algeria, Mostéfa Djadjam is a veteran actor and director who has navigated the worlds of avant-garde European cinema and international blockbusters with equal finesse. He first gained prominence in the 1980s through his frequent collaborations with the German director Werner Schroeter, appearing in highly stylized, operatic films like La Répétition générale (1981), Day of the Idiots (1982), and The Rose King (1986). His career is marked by a dual identity in cinema: as an actor, he has worked with renowned auteurs such as Raoul Ruiz (Three Crowns of the Sailor) and Steven Spielberg, for whom he played the role of Hussein Abad Al-Chir in the 2005 thriller Munich. As a filmmaker, he wrote and directed the critically acclaimed 2001 drama Frontiers (Frontières), which explored the harrowing journeys of North African migrants. In the mid-2020s, Djadjam has seen a resurgence in prominent character roles, appearing as Boutlali in the 2024 drama Six Feet Over (Six pieds sur terre) and portraying the "Lover in Portbou" in Agnès de Sacy's "La Fille d'un grand amour" (2025). His television credits are equally prestigious, featuring recurring roles in the Italian crime epic ZeroZeroZero (2020) and the Anglo-French series The Tunnel.
