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Boualem Benani is an Algerian actor born in Hussein-Dey, Algiers, in 1946.
He discovered theatre in a holiday center that was animated by professionals like Kaki, Alloua, Hassan El-Hassani and Mohamed Boudia.
Awestruck, he decided to make it his vocation.
He perfected his formation by enrolling in the Dramatic Art School of Bordj el Kiffan, which had just opened.
After his national service, he was recruited by the Algerian National Theatre (TNA) and became a professional comedian.
He was revealed by the film Omar Gatlato (1976) where he has the main role.
He also starred in Le Vent du sud (1975) and Les Enfants du vent (1980).
After a conviction for theft, Merwan was expelled from France, where he had lived since the age of one, to Algeria, his country of birth. In a foreign country of which he knows neither the language nor the customs, he finds himself stripped of his belongings and on the street.
Omar, a young man, lives a simple life with his family and suffers from loneliness. His life changes when he tries to bond with a girl he barely knows.
Néfissa, a student in Algiers, returns to her village in the south in the summer. Her father wants her to marry the mayor but she wants to continue her studies. Confronting her father and the opinion of the villagers who do not understand her, she decides to flee to Algiers. The shepherd Rabah discovering her wounded and lost in the mountains, has her treated by her mother. In contact with Nefissa, Rabat becomes aware of his exploited condition and discovers the possibilities offered to him by the cooperatives of the agrarian revolution. The two young people will go through the decisive stage together which will allow them to escape obscurantism and exploitation. Based on the novel "Le vent du sud" by Abdelhamid Benahouga