Noureddine Hiahemzizou

Noureddine Hiahemzizou, born in 1937 in Algiers, is a designer, illustrator, cartoonist, model maker and poster designer, graduated from the National School of Fine Arts of Algiers.

He started at the weekly “Algérie Actualité” in 1968 as a layout designer and illustrator and became known by publishing a humorous series under the title “Zach” (La Cigale) and the same year in the daily “El Moudjahid” with the character Si Fliou, based on an idea from journalist Abderrahmane Mekhlef, in a comic strip entitled "The Adventures of Si Fliou". In 1969, Algérie Actualités published a booklet, its adaptation of a short story by Ahmed Chenouf Boudi: "Commando En Mission" on the Algerian War, a comic strip on the theme of the war of national liberation. That same year, he invented the character of Si Fliou in the form of strips in the newspaper El Moudjahid.

In the cinema he began as a production assistant in the film "Z" by Costa Gavras in 1967. Then he designed numerous posters for Algerian films including "Hassan Terro" by Mohamed Lakhdar Hamina (1968), "The Way" of the deceased Mohamed Slim Riad (1968), "Hell at Ten Years" (collective 1969), "Patrouille À L'Est" by the late Amar Laskri (1971), "Le Mariage De Moussa" by Tayeb Mefti (1982), "Harvest d'Acier" by Ghaouti Benddedouche (1983), "Chant D'Automne" by the late Meziane Yala (1983), "Les Portes Du Silence" by the late Amar Laskri (1987), "Faits Divers" (collective 2019), etc.