Merzak Allouache

Known for DirectingBorn 1944-10-06 (age 81)Alger, Algérie

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Planet Malek

My Story Is Not Yet Written

The Adventures of a Hero

Wind from the South

The Man Who Was Looking at the Windows

À bicyclette

Algiers-Beirut: A Souvenir

Des femmes

La soledad del manager

A Parisian Love Story

Autumn Landscapes

Harragas

Tata Bakhta

The Repentant

Investigating Paradise

Omar Gatlato

Front Row

Lumière & Company

Bab El Oued City

Bab El Web

Love Reinvented

Madame Courage

Normal!

Chouchou

Salut cousin !

The Other World

The Rooftops

Bay of Algiers

The Family

Le Passeur immobile

Divine Wind

Love Reinvented

Women on the Move

After October

Cinématon XIII

Intimate Thought

The Thief