Mahmoud Zemmouri

Mahmoud Zemmouri was born on 2 December 1946 in Boufarik, in the Mitidja, and went to Paris at twenty; there he spent two years at the École supérieure d'optique and one at the Institut des hautes études de cinéma, then worked as an assistant on two films shot in France by Ali Ghalem. He wrote and directed from 1976 on, and pursued a career as an actor at the same time: he has been seen with Claude Berri, with Jean-Loup Hubert and even with Steven Spielberg. Immigration and the second generation are his subject matter, always treated in a tone of derision. He died on 4 November 2017 in Bry-sur-Marne, and is buried in Boufarik.

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• CinemaLes Folles Années du twistMahmoud Zemmouri · 1983Cinema