Mohamed Ousfour

Mohamed Ousfour was born in 1927 in the Safi region, at Had Bkhat according to the Moroccan Cinema Centre. A newspaper seller in Casablanca, he became passionate about cinema at the age of twelve, without ever receiving any training. With a nine-millimetre camera, he shot from 1941 a series of adventures inspired by Tarzan, which he screened for a fee in the garage where he worked as a mechanic, then learned to develop his films himself. He was also an actor and an assistant on many foreign shoots in Morocco.

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• Cinemaالابن العاقMohamed Ousfour · 1958Cinema