Merzak Allouache
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- October 6, 1944, Alger, Algérie
- Movies
- 35
Merzak Allouache (born 6 October 1944) is an Algerian film director and screenwriter. His 1976 film Omar Gatlato was later entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize. His 1996 Salut cousin! was submitted to the 69th Academy Awards in the category of Best Foreign Language Film. He is one of the most influential Algerian filmmakers, considered by some to be the most important. He is the only Algerian filmmaker who devoted most, if not all, of his cinematic work to his native country.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2021 | Le Passeur immobile | Self |
| 2019 | Planet Malek | Self -Director |
| 2017 | My Story Is Not Yet Written | Self |
| 1981 | Cinématon XIII | N°128 |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2026 | Front Row | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 2024 | The Family | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2020 | Des femmes | Director |
| 2019 | Autumn Landscapes | Writer, Director |
| 2018 | Divine Wind | Director, Writer |
| 2018 | Investigating Paradise | Director, Screenplay, Producer |
| 2015 | Madame Courage | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2013 | The Rooftops | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 2013 | The Repentant | Writer, Director |
| 2012 | Tata Bakhta | Director |
| 2012 | Bay of Algiers | Director, Writer |
| 2012 | Normal! | Director |
| 2009 | Harragas | Director, Writer |
| 2005 | Bab El Web | Director, Writer |
| 2003 | Chouchou | Director |
| 2001 | The Other World | Director |
| 2001 | À bicyclette | Director |
| 1999 | La soledad del manager | Director |
| 1998 | Algiers-Beirut: A Souvenir | Director, Writer |
| 1997 | Love Reinvented | Director |
| 1996 | Salut cousin ! | Director, Writer |
| 1995 | Lumière & Company | Director |
| 1994 | Bab El Oued City | Director, Writer |
| 1990 | Women on the Move | Director |
| 1989 | After October | Director |
| 1987 | A Parisian Love Story | Director |
| 1985 | The Man Who Watched Windows | Director |
| 1979 | The Adventures of a Hero | Writer, Director |
| 1976 | Omar Gatlato | Screenplay, Director |
| 1967 | Intimate Thought | Director |
| 1967 | The Thief | Director |
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