Merzak Allouache

Abderrazak Allouache, known as Merzak Allouache, was born on 6 October 1944 in Bab el-Oued, the son of a postal worker from Kabylia and a mother from the Casbah. In 1964 he entered the National Film Institute in Algiers, completed his training in Paris, and worked for a few months at the Algerian Office of News, from which he was dismissed after a petition, then at the Ministry of Information. He made satirical programmes for television, filmed the riots of October 1988 on the spot, shot films clandestinely during the Black Decade, then divided his work between France and Algeria.

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• CinemaOmar GatlatoMerzak Allouache · 1976Cinema