Med Hondo was a Mauritanian film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and voice actor. He emigrated to France in 1959 and began to work in film during the 1960s. He received critical acclaim for his 1967 directorial début Soleil O. Son vrai nom est Mohamed Abid né le samedi 4 mai 1935, à Ain Beni Mathar au Maroc et décédé le samedi 2 mars 2019 à l'âge de 83 ans au 14ème arrondissement de Paris.
Full Filmography
Directing
Ballade aux sources
(1965)
Director
My Neighbours
(1971)
Director
Oh, Sun
(1973)
Director
The Black Wogs, Your Neighbors
(1974)
Director
We Shall Have the Whole of Death to Sleep
(1977)
Director
West Indies
(1979)
Director
Polisario, A People in Arms
(1979)
Director
Hunger Of The World
(1981)
Director
Sarraounia
(1986)
Director
Black Light
(1994)
Director
Watani: A World Without Evil
(1998)
Director
Fatima, the Algerian Woman of Dakar
(2004)
Director
Acting
Les verts pâturages
(1964)
St Pierre
La Tragédie du Roi Christophe
(1965)
Magny
Masculin Féminin
(1966)
Man in the Subway (uncredited)
Môl
(1966)
Narrator
Shock Troops
(1967)
Florent
Zita
(1968)
James
A Walk with Love and Death
(1969)
Entertainer
The Ambassadors
(1975)
Med
The Spiral
(1976)
Narrator (French version) (voice)
Safrana or Freedom of Speech
(1978)
Narrator (voice)
The Making of West Indies
(1979)
Ouaga
(1988)
1871
(1990)
Karl Marx
The Gods Must Be Daring
(1997)
Le pilote
L'Année des Guignols - J'y arrive pas
(1997)
Pierre Diouf (voice)
Antilles sur Seine
(2000)
Horace
Asterix and the Vikings
(2006)
Baba, la vigie des pirates (voice)
Incontrôlable
(2006)
Rex (voice)
Spike
(2008)
Raymon (voice)
Med Hondo – Rebel African Film-maker
(2022)
Self
Writing
Ballade aux sources
(1965)
Scenario Writer
Oh, Sun
(1973)
Writer
The Black Wogs, Your Neighbors
(1974)
Writer
West Indies
(1979)
Writer
Sarraounia
(1986)
Writer
Black Light
(1994)
Screenplay
Watani: A World Without Evil
(1998)
Writer
Fatima, the Algerian Woman of Dakar
(2004)
Writer
Art
Editing
Production