Abdallah Mesbahi

Abdellah Mesbahi was born in El Jadida, in 1936 according to Africultures, in 1938 according to Le Matin. Trained at the École supérieure d'études cinématographiques in Paris, he was a trainee at the Théâtre national populaire, then held administrative posts in Morocco at the Ministry of Information and at the Moroccan Cinema Centre. He directed twenty-one feature films, several of them shot in Egypt, many in the service of Arab and Islamic causes; one, on the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, was censored and remained unseen for three decades. He died in September 2016.

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• Cinemaسكوت اتجاه ممنوعAbdallah Mesbahi · 1973Cinema