Saâdi Yacef (Arabic: ياسف سعدي, romanized: Yāsaf Saʿadī; 20 January 1928 – 10 September 2021) was an Algerian revolutionary, politician and actor.

A prominent figure during the Algerian War, he served as a leader of the National Liberation Front.

He was born in the bustling Casbah district of Algiers on 20 January 1928, to illiterate ethnic Berber parents.

The son of parents from the Algerian region of Kabylia, he started his working life at age of 14 as an apprentice baker.

After the OS was broken up, Yacef moved to France and lived there until 1952, when he returned to Algeria to work again as a baker.

[2] “The Battle of Algiers” movie, and Mr. Yacef’s 1962 memoir, Souvenirs de la Bataille d’Alger, which he had dictated to a friend in prison because he was barely literate, became a major influence on later guerrilla movements .

After the Algerian War, Yacef helped produce Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo's film The Battle of Algiers (1966), based on Souvenirs de la Bataille d'Alger.