Larbi Zekkal

Larbi Zekkal was born in the Casbah of Algiers and began his acting career in the early 1950s with the Algerian National Theater troupe. A versatile performer of great subtlety and dramatic depth, he was cast in Gillo Pontecorvo's historic 1966 masterpiece 'The Battle of Algiers'.

Over a brilliant fifty-year career, Zekkal appeared in dozens of landmark international and Algerian feature films, including 'L'Opium et le Bâton', 'Chronique des années de braise', 'Bâton Rouge', and Rachid Bouchareb's 'Hors-la-loi' (2010), representing the quintessential gentleman and moral conscience of Algerian cinema.