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Abderrahmane Bouguermouh

Birth : February 25th, 1936

Place : Ouzellaguen (Algeria)

Nationality : Algerian

Death : February 3rd, 2013 (76 years old)

Algiers

Profession : Director

Most famous movies : La Colline oubliée (1997)

Abderrahmane Bouguermouh (in berbère language :Ɛebderreḥman Bugarmuḥ), born on February 25th, 1936 at Ouzellaguen en Algeria et dead on February 3rd, 2013 at Algiers, is an Algerian Director.

Biographie
Abderrahmane Bouguermouh was born to a teacher father and stay at home mom. At the age of 9, he started studying in Sétif where he witnessed the events of May 8th, 1945.

In 1957, he met his future close friend Mouloud Mammeri. In 1960, he started studying to become a director at the IDHEC (Institute of Advanced Cinematographic studie) in Paris. During his studies, he directed broadcasts for RTF in Cognacq Jay.

In 1963 he moved back to Algeria to co-found the "Centre national du cinéma algérien" (National Center for Algerian Cinema). In 1964, he was shunned for his political opinions. He adapted in 1965 a text from Malek Haddad into a short film in Berber entitled "Comme une âme" (As a soul). The censorship commission, functionning under the ministry of culture, refused the piece because it wasn't made in Arabic. After this disappointment, he moved back to Paris to adapt it into French. However, this attempt also failed, because the film strips were confiscated and destroyed.

Between 1965 and 1968, he made a couple of documentaries and got closer to Berberists such as Mohand Saïd Hanouz, Marguerite Taos Amrouche, Mouloud Mammeri, Mouloud Batouche and Mohand Arab Bessaoud.

In 1973, he was Mohamed Lakhdar Hamina's assistant director in the making of Chronique des années de braise (Chronicles of the Years of Fire).

Filmography

 * 1965 : Comme une âme (Short film)
 * 1967 : La Grive
 * 1967 : Le souf (documentary)
 * 1967 : Ghardaïa (documentary)
 * 1968 : Jeux universitaires maghrébins (documentary)
 * 1968 : Le 8 mai 1945 (documentary)
 * 1968 : L'Enfer à 10 ans
 * 1978 : Les oiseaux de l'Été (Tv movie)
 * 1980 : Noir et blanc (Tv movie)
 * 1980 : Regard de la main (Documentary)
 * 1987 : Cri de Pierre
 * 1996 : La Colline oubliée