Merzak Allouache
Born: 1944-10-06 in Alger, Algérie
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2026
- Front Row ... (Director)
2024
- The Family ... (Director)
2021
- Le Passeur immobile as Self
2020
- Des femmes ... (Director)
2019
- Planet Malek as Self -Director
- Autumn Landscapes ... (Director)
2018
- Investigating Paradise ... (Director)
- Divine Wind ... (Director)
2017
- My Story Is Not Yet Written as Self
2015
- Madame Courage ... (Director)
2013
- The Repentant ... (Writer)
- The Rooftops ... (Director)
2012
- Bay of Algiers ... (Director)
- Normal! ... (Director)
- Tata Bakhta ... (Director)
2009
- Harragas ... (Writer)
2005
- Bab El Web ... (Director)
2003
- Chouchou ... (Director)
2001
- À bicyclette ... (Director)
- The Other World ... (Director)
1999
- La soledad del manager ... (Director)
1998
- Algiers-Beirut: A Souvenir ... (Director)
1997
- Love Reinvented ... (Director)
1996
- Love Reinvented ... (Director)
- Salut cousin ! ... (Director)
1995
- Lumière & Company ... (Director)
1994
- Bab El Oued City ... (Director)
1990
- Women on the Move ... (Director)
1989
- After October ... (Director)
1987
- A Parisian Love Story ... (Director)
1985
- The Man Who Was Looking at the Windows ... (Director)
1981
- Cinématon XIII as N°128
1979
- The Adventures of a Hero ... (Writer)
1976
- Omar Gatlato ... (Director)
1975
- Wind from the South ... (Assistant Director)
1967
- The Thief ... (Director)
- Intimate Thought ... (Director)