Lasaad Ben Abdallah
Biography
Lassaâd Ben Abdallah, born in 1958 in Tunis, is a Tunisian theater director. He founded the company Cith'art in 1987, upon graduation from theatrical studies at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts. Between 1988 and 2000, he staged several plays, such as Nwakez, Taqacim, Flouss El Guez, Zarkoun Story, Ritsi and Koussouf. In 2001, he wrote and directed a multidisciplinary "show-event", touring throughout Tunisia and the Maghreb, El Mansiet (Les Oubliées); he mixes music, song, dance and theater.
Known For & Full Filmography5 Titles
Drama Series - 2019, 16 episodes • as Sadok Bezdig
A historical fiction story that goes back to the 1990s where a passionate suburban young man seeks his destiny in the dark streets of the Tunisian capital, stumbles across love, on his journey of perfecting the art of traditional Mezwed.
Drama Series - 2025, 16 episodes • as Arbi Sallemi
After the death of Arbi Sallemi, his children are forced to confront long-buried tensions, family rivalries, and financial struggles. What begins as a father’s attempt to reunite his fractured family soon turns into a battle over inheritance, as his children navigate grief, resentment, and personal ambition. With secrets unraveling and conflicts escalating, the fight for what remains threatens to tear them apart.
Movie - 2020, 2h 15m • as Il commerciante
The last years of Bettino Craxi, one of the most important and controversial italian leader of the 1980's.
Drama Series - 2022, 16 episodes • as Detective Mehrez
In separate connected episodes that follow the circumstances of the crime and reveals the killer in each episode.
Movie - 2013, 2h 15m • as Khadhra
Larger-than-life characters populate director Nejib Belkadhi’s spellbinding combination of film noir and magic realism, which follows a downtrodden orphan — now grown but still saddled with a cruel nickname — who has a reversal of fortune and takes on the thugs who control his ghetto.