--- name: "Brahim Hadjadj" canonical: "https://film.one/person/brahim-hadjadj" fi1m_id: "brahim-hadjadj" imdb_id: "nm0352835" tmdb_id: 140996 wikidata_id: "Q2923550" roles: ["Actor"] born: "31 January 1934" died: "8 March 1996" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T21:33:23.737336+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Brahim Hadjadj ## Identity Brahim Hadjadj - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/brahim-hadjadj - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** brahim-hadjadj - **IMDb ID:** nm0352835 - **TMDB ID:** 140996 - **Wikidata ID:** Q2923550 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahim_Hadjadj, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2923550, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0352835/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/140996 Actor. Born 31 January 1934 in Médéa, Algeria. Died 8 March 1996. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 31 January 1934, Médéa, Algeria - **Died:** 8 March 1996 - **Also known as:** Brahim Haggiag, إبراهيم حجاج, Brahim Hajjaj, Брахим Хаджадж - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahim_Hadjadj, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2923550, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0352835/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/140996 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*The Battle of Algiers*](https://film.one/film/the-battle-of-algiers.md) (93) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Brahim Hadjadj > Brahim Hadjadj’s watchfulness makes Ali La Pointe a compelling presence in *The Battle of Algiers*. We rate his restraint highly; our reservation is that the film sometimes moves away from him too soon. Brahim Hadjadj gives Ali La Pointe a watchfulness that holds our attention amid the tactical explanations of *The Battle of Algiers* (1966). Gillo Pontecorvo’s documentary manner needs actors who seem to belong to the events rather than stand outside them. Hadjadj’s physical presence suits it, and we rate his restraint highly. He makes Ali worth attending to even when the film has other people and events to get to. This was his screen debut and his only leading role. He followed it with the part of the Arab in Luchino Visconti’s *The Stranger* (1967), then Omar in *L’Opium et le bâton* (1969). His later credits include Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina’s *Chronicle of the Years of Fire* (1975), and his screen work continued into the mid-1980s. Those films establish a career beyond Ali, though it is the debut that gives us the clearest grounds for a recommendation. Pontecorvo also gives him fellow actors working with a similar restraint. Jean Martin’s Colonel Philippe Mathieu makes the military reasoning credible enough to be uncomfortable, while Yacef Saâdi’s El-Hadi Jaffar belongs to the same documentary style. Hadjadj fits beside them without losing the resistance that makes Ali worth watching. The value of his performance lies partly in that fit: he can hold our attention without forcing a film about the collective struggle to become a vehicle for its leading actor. The limitation is how quickly the film moves away from the people it has made us notice. We found *The Battle of Algiers* hard to bear: Hadjadj’s watchfulness makes us care about Ali while the documentary style makes the violence feel close. We wanted longer with him before another explanation of the campaign, a reservation about Pontecorvo’s priorities rather than Hadjadj’s performance. Start with this role, but do not expect the intimacy of a film built around a single actor. ## Biography Brahim Hadjadj (also credited as Brahim Haggiag and إبراهيم حجاج) was an Algerian actor. He was born on 31 January 1934 in Médéa, Algeria, and died on 8 March 1996 in Algiers. Hadjadj made his screen debut as Ali La Pointe in Gillo Pontecorvo's *The Battle of Algiers* (1966). He subsequently appeared in films including *The Stranger* (1967), *L'Opium et le bâton* (1969), *Patrouille à l'Est* (1971) and *Chronicle of the Years of Fire* (1975). His career spanned from 1966 to 1986. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, fr.wikipedia.org.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The Battle of Algiers* (1966), Fi1m 93, as Ali La Pointe — [page](https://film.one/film/the-battle-of-algiers.md) ## Complete filmography (12) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte* (2018), as Ali La Pointe (archive footage) - *L'Histoire Du Film "La Bataille D'Alger"* (2018), as Ali La Pointe (archive footage) - *Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers* (2004), as Ali La Pointe (archive footage) - *Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers* (2004), as Ali La Pointe (archive footage) - *Les Folles Années du Twist* (1986), as Si Omar - *The Empire of Dreams* (1982), as Le Voyou - *Chronicle of the Years of Fire* (1975), Actor - *Patrol in the East* (1971), Actor - *Opium and the Stick* (1970), as Omar - *The Outlaws* (1969), as Le Charretier - *The Stranger* (1967), as Arab - *The Battle of Algiers* (1966), as Ali La Pointe — Fi1m 93, [page](https://film.one/film/the-battle-of-algiers.md) ## Gallery - ![Brahim Hadjadj](https://film.one/media/person/60036/gallery-7dcaf97e9d8b.jpg) Brahim Hadjadj — キネマ旬報社, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Kinema-Junpo-1966-November-early-3.jpg/1280px-Kinema-Junpo-1966-November-early-3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Brahim Hadjadj](https://film.one/media/person/60036/gallery-d8b7f6a5d459.jpg) Brahim Hadjadj — Image via TMDB - ![Brahim Hadjadj](https://film.one/media/person/60036/gallery-47e3ed643638.jpg) Brahim Hadjadj — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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