Ramzy Bedia chooses Frantz Fanon from the United Souls collection

In the United Souls collection, French actor and comedian Ramzy Bedia chooses Frantz Fanon, the theorist of “cultural de-alienation” committed to Algerian independence.

Director of the Blida psychiatric hospital during the Algerian War, Frantz Fanon was a major player in African independence. He fought all forms of alienation until his death at the age of 36. During his brief time in this hospital-asylum, where the "racialist" theories of colonial psychiatry from the Algiers School on North African patients were applied to the letter, he noted that the mental suffering of North African patients stems largely from the colonial situation that has lasted for over a century.

French of Algerian origin, Ramzy is naturally sensitive to the historical link between France and Algeria. This shared history influences and forges his commitment to building a shared imagination reflecting the diversity of the French people. Discovered by the general public in the sitcom H and appreciated for his humor in the duo Eric & Ramzy, the son of immigrants also participated in 2018 in the documentary Histoire d'une nation which shows how France reinvented itself thanks to different generations of immigrants. In 2019, he played the lead role in the film Terminal Sud by Franco-Algerian director Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche. That of a doctor in a country in the midst of civil war who evokes Algeria and highlights the trauma caused by massacres bringing together executioners and victims in the same morbid anonymity. A film where the soul of Frantz Fanon seems to hover as much as a political psychiatrist as a decolonial thinker.

In 2020, Ramzy made a foray into Jean-Pascal Zadi 's film Tout simplement noir , a funny and committed film about black identity in France. The first to bring United Souls creations to the big screen.