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Merzak Allouache

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Algerian film director and screenwriter

DirectorsBorn 1944 · age 81
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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.

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Filmography 35

Chouchou2003 · ★ 5.3
Lumière & Company1995 · ★ 6.3
Salut cousin !1996
Omar Gatlato1976
Harragas2009
Bab El Oued City1994
The Repentant2013
Bab El Web2005
The Other World2001
Bay of Algiers2012
Madame Courage2015
The Rooftops2013
Normal!2012
Investigating Paradise2018
A Parisian Love Story1987
Des femmes2020
Love Reinvented1997
The Man Who Was Looking at the Windows1985
Planet Malek2019
Autumn Landscapes2019
Tata Bakhta2012
La soledad del manager1999
The Adventures of a Hero1979
Algiers-Beirut: A Souvenir1998
Cinématon XIII1981
My Story Is Not Yet Written2017
À bicyclette2001
Front Row2026
The Family2024
Intimate Thought1967
The Thief1967
Divine Wind2018
Women on the Move1990
After October1989
Le Passeur immobile2021

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Television 2

Ciné regards1978
Love Reinvented1996

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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.

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Type
Movie Director
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Born 1944 · age 81
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