Nadia Samir

Nadia Samir

Nadia Samir (in Arabic: نادية سمير), real name Fatma Zodmi, is a French-Algerian announcer and actress, born in Chlef, Algeria on April 12, 1947 and died in Paris on May 2, 2011 from cancer. Nadia Samir, after her training as an actress, played in Mendiants et Orgueilleux (1970) by Jacques Poitrenaud with Georges Moustaki. She then had small roles in cinema, notably opposite Alain Delon in La Race des Seigneurs (1973) by Pierre Granier-Deferre, Simone Signoret in La Vie Devant Soi (1977) by Moshé Mizrahi or Micheline Presle in Quelques Nouvelles (1977) by Jacques Davila, as well as in TV films or soap operas. Algerian director Sid Ali Mazif offered her the lead role in Leïla et les Autres (1977), which evokes the emancipation of women in the Maghreb. She gave birth to a daughter named Roxane in 1984. Nadia Samir became a presenter on TF1 for seven years, from 1985 to 1992, alongside Il y était Évelyne Dhéliat, Denise Fabre, Fabienne Égal. More than just a cathode-ray pass, she was above all the first presenter of Maghreb origin to appear on TF1 in the 80s, before their definitive disappearance in 1992. "Nadia Samir was the first Franco-Maghreb presenter in a French audio-visual landscape that had until then been monochrome. Star announcer of TF1, Nadia Samir has marked our collective unconscious, so much has her face been imprinted during these long years in our imagination, thus giving a face to diversity, expected and hoped for by millions of French people. In her own way, she has represented another image of the open, modern and committed Maghrebi woman far from the stereotypes in which immigrant women have too often been locked up. " - Fadila Mehal, President and Founder of Marianne de la diversité. After these seven years as an announcer, for the small screen, she returned to theater and cinema. She plays the main roles in the series Sixième Gauche and Fruits et Légumes, both broadcast on France 3 in the 1990s. She will also play, among others, in the series Navarro (TF1), Studio Sud (M6), Sixième Gauche (FR3). She then starred in several films including Bab El-Oued City by Merzak Allouache (1993), Là-Bas... Mon Pays by Alexandre Arcady (1999), Le Genre humain: Les Parisiens by Claude Lelouch (2003), Le Courage d'Aimer (2004) by Claude Lelouch, Cartouches Gauloises by Mehdi Charef (2006) presented out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival, where the director Mehdi Charef evokes his childhood memories during the last spring before Algerian independence. This performance remains her last appearance on screen.10 Nadia Samir was also a convinced feminist who had joined the Marianne de la diversité since its creation in 2005. For Fadila Mehal, President and Founder of the Marianne de la diversité, "She humbly wished that her career would serve as an example to all those who doubt and question the place they are given in French society because of their origin. In her own way, she showed that for her, her diversity was a gift for France and not a burden." She died in Paris on May 2, 2011 from cancer.

  • Title: Nadia Samir
  • Popularity: 0.781
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1947-04-12
  • Place of Birth: Chlef, Algeria
  • Homepage: https://www.cineartistes.com/index.php?page=afficher&id=Nadia+Samir&PHPSESSID=
  • Also Known As: Fatma Zodmi, نادية سمير
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Nadia Samir Movies

  • 1988
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    Un coupable

    Un coupable

    7.5 1988 HD

    The young Ali, a second year law student, gets caught up in a student demonstration. The situation escalates, a cop is injured and witnesses...

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  • 1991
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    Le Cri des hommes

    Le Cri des hommes

    10 1991 HD

    1957, the town of Mostaganem, Algeria: the country is still under French occupation, and repression of the National Liberation Front is at its...

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  • 2006
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    Gourbi Palace

    Gourbi Palace

    10 2006 HD

    A poor man rescues a rich man from burglars. as a way for thanking him The rich guy invite him and his family to come and live in his luxurious...

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  • 1977
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    Leila and the Others

    Leila and the Others

    10 1977 HD

    The story of Algerian women trying to live in 1970s Algeria where the society is between conservative values and progressive modern Algeria.

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  • 1990
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    Wandering Heart

    Wandering Heart

    1 1990 HD

    Directed by Fitouri Belhiba.

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  • 1972
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    Beggars and Proud Ones

    Beggars and Proud Ones

    1 1972 HD

    Hadjis, a philosophy professor in his thirties, put his spiritual concepts into practice when he left Europe to settle in a working-class district of...

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  • 1977
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    Versailles, peut-être

    Versailles, peut-être

    1 1977 HD

    Evocation of the Algerian War based on a poem by Franck Venaille recited by Laurent Terzieff.

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  • 2005
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    The Courage to Love

    The Courage to Love

    5.333 2005 HD

    A picture of humankind in Paris: singers, shows, social gatherings, businessmen, nightclub barmen, bums, shoppers.

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  • 2000
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    Return to Algiers

    Return to Algiers

    6.9 2000 HD

    Famous TV news anchorman Pierre Nivel left Algiers for France in 1962. That's been a secret; his Paris co-workers have never known that he was...

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  • 2007
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    Summer of '62

    Summer of '62

    6.1 2007 HD

    A pair of childhood friends spend a spring together before the summer Algeria's war of Independence.

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  • 1974
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    Creezy

    Creezy

    5.9 1974 HD

    Julien Dandieu, leader of the socialist political party PRU is asked to be part of the new conservative government as minister of foreign affairs....

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  • 1977
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    Madame Rosa

    Madame Rosa

    7 1977 HD

    Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she's a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to children of...

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  • 1980
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    Certaines nouvelles

    Certaines nouvelles

    7 1980 HD

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  • 1994
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    Bab El Oued City

    Bab El Oued City

    5.9 1994 HD

    Bab El-Oued, a popular district of Algiers, in 1989, a few months after the riots. Boualem works at night in a bakery and steals the loudspeaker that...

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