Saadi Yacef
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Saadi Yacef 🇩🇿

ياسف سعدي (Known as "Yacef Saadi")
Military Commander of the Autonomous Zone of Algiers, Author, Film Producer
Born Jan 20, 1928 🇩🇿 Algiers, Algeria
Passed Away Sep 10, 2021 Algiers, Algeria
Lifespan 93 years old
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"The Casbah was our trench, our sanctuary, and the beating heart of our freedom."

Archival Overview

Commander of the FLN Autonomous Zone of Algiers during the historic 1957 Battle of Algiers, who later co-produced and starred in Gillo Pontecorvo's Oscar-nominated masterpiece The Battle of Algiers.

Biographical Record

Born in the heart of the Casbah of Algiers, Saadi Yacef joined the PPA youth wing before rising to head the FLN Autonomous Zone of Algiers (ZAA) during the height of the urban warfare campaign in 1956–1957. Managing secret networks of fighters, couriers, and bombmakers, he turned the labyrinthine Casbah into a fortress of anti-colonial resistance.

Captured by French paratroopers in September 1957 and sentenced to death, he was pardoned after De Gaulle took power. In independence, he founded Casbah Films and produced The Battle of Algiers (1966), which won the Golden Lion at Venice and became one of the greatest political films in world cinema history.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
El Kettar Cemetery
Algiers, Algeria
GPS: 36.7867, 3.0489
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