Tunisian actor Hichem Rostom, who starred in films as famous as The
English Patient,
died Tuesday at the age of 75, the Tunisian Ministry of Culture announced.
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This doctor in literature and theater history began his career as an artist more than 50 years ago and has participated in dozens of Tunisian, French, Italian, English and German films.
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From
the Wing or the Thigh
to the
Days of Carthage
Born near Tunis on May 26, 1947, Hichem Rostom did his higher education in France where he worked as an animator at the National Popular Theater before embarking on cinema.
In 1988 he strongly camped Si Youssef in
Les Sabots en or
by Nouri Bouzid, his first big success.
He then continued his career in his native country where we see him in many films made by Tunisians and in foreign feature films such as
Les Silences du palais
by Moufida Tlatli,
Essaïda
by Mohamed Zran and of course
The English Patient
by Anthony Minghella.
Passionate about all forms of scenic expression, he was director of the Carthage Theater Days for two successive editions.
He is also known for his productions of plays such as
Caligula
and
The Stranger
by Albert Camus.
Finally, he will also have led theater workshops in Tunisian universities.
In France, his talents have been used in particular in
L'Aile ou la Cuisse
by Claude Zidi from 1976,
Paparazzi
by Alain Berberian (1998) and finally more recently in
L'Or noir
by Jean-Jacques Annaud (2011).
In his country, where he was considered the most famous actor of his generation, he was one of the founders of the “
Rouhaniyet
” festival of spiritual and Sufi songs.
