Adel Bencherif
Since 2004, Adel Bencherif has played Arabic characters that draw upon his background as a Frenchman by way of Tunisia. He began acting with a small role in the romantic drama "Grande école," which explores the fractured relationship of a couple exploring their sexual desires. Bencherif next appeared as a struggling actor in "Ze Film," a 2005 comedy about an aspiring director who steals equipment from a big-budget movie set to make his own film; the following year, he made a brief appearance as a brazen guitar thief in a segment of the critically-acclaimed anthology "Paris, je'taime." After Bencherif was cast as a radical Islamic teen in the French TV movie "Djihad!," which examined the lives of a group of people caught in the chaotic run-up to the Iraq war, he landed a pivotal role in Xavier Gans's gruesome horror "Frontier(s)." In 2009 he landed a breakout role in Jacques Audiard's critically-acclaimed prison drama "A Prophet," which stirred controversy over its thought-provoking plot about the spread of Islamic fundamentalism within the French prison system. Bencherif portrayed Ryad, a young drug dealer who teaches naive prisoner Malik (Tahar Rahim) to read and write, and educates him about his Muslim heritage. The following year, he appeared as a radical Algerian terrorist in "Of Gods and Men," based on the politically-motivated murders of seven Trappist monks during the 1996 Algerian civil war.
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Adel Bencherif
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bisons | Fredo (Character) | - | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Heartbeast | Karim (Character) | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dark Satellites | Hamed (Character) | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Frères ennemis | Imrane Mogalia (Character) | - | 2018 |
58% |
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Close Enemies (Freres Ennemis) | Unknown (Character) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet |
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In the Shadow of Iris | Malek Ziani (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Les gorilles | Frelon (Character) | - | 2015 |
100% |
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Rock the Casbah | Unknown (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet |
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Dream Kids | Sofiane (Character) | - | 2013 |
91% |
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Point Blank | Luc Sartet (Character) | $706.9K | 2010 |
92% |
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Of Gods and Men | Le terroriste (Character) | $4.0M | 2010 |
96% |
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A Prophet | Ryad (Character) | $2.1M | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ze film | Aziz (Character) | - | 2004 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 69% | War of the Worlds | Colonel Mustafa Mokrani (Character) | 2019 2021-2022 |
95% | 79% | The Little Drummer Girl | Unknown (Character) | 2018 |