Aziz Anik

(1956 - 1997)

Aziz Anik, born in March 1956 in El Harrach, a district of Algiers, is an Algerian comedian. Aziz Anik, is best known for his romantic roles in cinema and in soap operas on Algerian public television (ENTV at the time), including Les Enfants du Soleil, "Le Clandestin", "La Dernier Attempt", "The Conversation", "From the Bottom of the Heart", "Cheb, Radhia", "Aïla Ki Ness", "El Michoir", "The Professor and the Devil", "Ghezala" among others... Nicknamed by one of his screen roles "Mimiche le Solitaire", he was especially renowned for his kindness, his wisdom, his sympathy and for the smile that never left his beautiful face. In love with his homeland Algeria, he appeared in an election announcement spot, in November 1995 in the middle of the dark decade, which earned him to be shot and killed, two years later, on Thursday November 6, 1997.