# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/merzak-allouache
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:57:04.112Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/merzak-allouache"
name: "Merzak Allouache"
slug: "merzak-allouache"
description: "Merzak Allouache is an Algerian film director and screenwriter. His 1976 film Omar Gatlato was later entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize. His 1996 Salut cousin! was submitted to the 69th Academy Awards in the category of Best Foreign Language Film. He is one of the most influential Algerian filmmakers, considered by some to be the most important. He is the only Algerian filmmaker who devoted most, if not all, of his cinematic work to his native country."
tagline: "Algerian film director and screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Merzak-allouache.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1944-10-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.49798666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0021577/"
    handle:    "nm0021577"
sources:
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    title: "Merzak Allouache"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merzak_Allouache"
    title: "Merzak Allouache"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merzak_Allouache"
    title: "Merzak Allouache"
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  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merzak_Allouache"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump