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Algeria

Filmmaker · Algeria

Mohamed Bouamari

Died in 2006

Mohamed Bouamari was born in 1941 in Guidjel, near Sétif. Self-taught, he obtained a scholarship from a student union in 1961 to learn film set trades in France, returned to Algiers in 1965, frequented the cinémathèque and became an assistant to Lakhdar-Hamina, Costa-Gavras and Jean-Louis Bertuccelli. He moved into directing and made agrarian reform and the condition of women his subjects, with Fettouma Ousliha, his wife, as lead actress. The rise of Islamism brought him threats and exile. He died of a heart attack on 1 December 2006, while trying to complete a last film.

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