Alexandre Arcady

Alexandre Arcady

Film director and producer · b. 1947

One Sephardic or Mizrahi parent · ProbableIsrael & the Diaspora Today

Born in Algiers to an Algerian Jewish mother and a Hungarian father, he grew up in the Casbah and came to France at fifteen. His films, from Le Grand Pardon to Le Petit Blond de la Casbah, portray the Jews and pieds-noirs of Algeria.

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