Merzak Allouache
- Directing
- October 6, 1944 · Alger, Algérie
Biography
Merzak Allouache (born 6 October 1944) 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.
Known for
Filmography
- Front Row · Director, Editing
- The Family · Director, Writer
- Le Passeur immobile · Self
- Des femmes · Director
- Autumn Landscapes · Director, Writer
- Planet Malek · Self
- Divine Wind · Director, Writer
- Investigating Paradise · Director, Screenplay
- My Story Is Not Yet Written · Self
- Madame Courage · Director, Writer
- The Rooftops · Director, Producer
- The Repentant · Director, Writer
- Tata Bakhta · Director
- Bay of Algiers · Director, Writer
- Normal! · Director
- Harragas · Writer, Director
- Bab El Web · Director, Writer
- Chouchou · Director, Scenario Writer
- The Other World · Director
- À bicyclette · Director, Scenario Writer
- La soledad del manager · Director
- Algiers-Beirut: A Souvenir · Director, Writer
- Love Reinvented · Director
- Love Reinvented · Director
- Salut cousin ! · Director, Writer
- Lumière & Company · Director
- Bab El Oued City · Writer, Director
- Women on the Move · Director
- After October · Director
- A Parisian Love Story · Director
- The Man Who Watched Windows · Director
- Cinématon XIII · N°128
- The Adventures of a Hero · Writer, Director
- Ciné regards · Self
- Omar Gatlato · Director, Screenplay
- Wind from the South · Assistant Director
- The Thief · Director
- Intimate Thought · Director