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Merzak Allouache

Merzak Allouache

Algerian film director and screenwriter
October 6, 1944 (80 years old)

Investigating Paradise

V.O.: Enquête au paradis
Alg. 2017. Documentary by Merzak Allouache.
Runtime: 135 min.

The Rooftops

V.O.: Es-Stouh
Runtime: 91 min.

Le Repenti

V.O.: El Taaib
Alg. 2012. Drama by Merzak Allouache with Nabil Asli, Adila Bendimerad, Khaled Benaissa. A young Algerian jihadist re-enters society and makes contact with a pharmacist whose daughter was murdered by his fellow terrorists.
Runtime: 87 min.
Fr. 2012. Drama by Merzak Allouache with Catherine Jacob, Solal Forte, Anthony Sonigo. The carefree adolescence of the writer Louis Gardel, in the months before the outbreak of the Algerian War of Independence.
Runtime: 100 min.
Runtime: 111 min.
Runtime: 93 min.
Fr. 2009. Drama by Merzak Allouache with Nabil Asli, Seddik Benyagoub, Lamia Boussekine. On-board a frail motorboat, Algerians try to reach the Spanish coast illegally.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 2004. Mores comedy by Merzak Allouache with Faudel, Samy Naceri, Julie Gayet. In an underprivileged neighborhood of Algiers, two brothers welcome a young French woman with a mysterious past, whom the younger brother met via the Internet.
Runtime: 99 min.
Fr. 2003. Mores comedy by Merzak Allouache with Gad Elmaleh, Roschdy Zem, Alain Chabat. In Paris, the various tribulations of a na
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 2001. Sentimental comedy by Merzak Allouache with Bruno Todeschini, Élise Tielrooy, Rochelle Redfield.
Runtime: 90 min.
Runtime: 95 min.

Alger-Beyrouth, si loin si proche

V.O.: Alger-Beyrouth: Pour mémoire
Fr. 1998. Sentimental drama by Merzak Allouache with Fabienne Babe, Georges Corraface, Hocine Choutri. Back in Beirut after a long exile, a French-Lebanese journalist falls in love with an Algerian former colleague.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1998. Crime drama by Merzak Allouache with Juanjo Puigcorbé, Valeria Marini, Jean Benguigui. From Barcelona to Paris, a Catalan private detective leads an investigation to discover who killed the head of a Spanish subsidiary of a powerful French organization.
Runtime: 96 min.
Fr. 1996. Mores comedy by Merzak Allouache with Gad Elmaleh, Mess Hattou, Magaly Berdy.
Runtime: 98 min.
Runtime: 85 min.
Alg. 1976. Mores comedy by Merzak Allouache with Boualem Benani, Aziz Degga, Farida Guenaneche. A young civil servant who loves Indian music seeks to find a stranger whose voice has charmed him.
Runtime: 90 min.

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