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Sid Ali Mazif

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Directed movies: 6Directed series: 0All crew credits: 8

TMDB ID: 1433183

IMDb ID: nm1978560

Known for: Directing

Born: January 1, 1943

Age: 83

Place of birth: Alger, Algérie

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1968 - 1986

Years active: 19

Wikidata: Q13411205

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سيد علي مزيف

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Biography

Sid Ali Mazif (سيد علي مزيف), is an Algerian director, born in 1943 in Algiers. After starting as an assistant on the set of Twenty Years in Algiers by Marc Sator, Sid Ali Mazif studied at the Ben Aknoun National Cinema Institute, near Algiers. As part of his training, he made his first short films between 1965 and 1966. He then joined the future ONCIC for which he shot documentaries such as La Cueillette des Oranges and Le Paludisme en Algérie (1967). He also collaborated on two important collective films of Algerian cinema: Hell at Ten Years (1968) on the experience of children during the war of liberation and Récits de la Révolution (1970). His first feature film, Black Sweat tells the story of the repression of a miners' strike during colonialism. Les Nomades (1975) addresses the delicate problem of the necessary sedentarization of tribes. Since Leila and the Others (1977), Sid Ali Mazif has campaigned, through his films, for the improvement of the condition of women in his country.