Harragas de merzak allouache biography

Quick facts for kids Merzak Allouache
Allouache in 2017
Born	(1940-10-06) 6 October 1940 (age 84) Algiers, Algeria
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1972-present
Notable work	Omar Gatlato

Merzak Allouache (born 6 October 1940) 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.

Harragas are mostly young people who, for various reasons, risk their lives to make it secretly across the mediterranean.

Harragas are mostly young people who, for various reasons, risk their lives to make it secretly across the mediterranean.

Merzak Allouache (born 6 October ) is an Algerian film director and screenwriter.

Harragas is a film.

Set in the northern Algerian port city of Mostaganem.

Biography.

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.

Early life

Merzak Allouache was born in the Algiers neighborhood of Bab el-Oued.

His father was a Kabyle Berber postal worker and his mother was an Algerian housewife from Casbah. Allouache was only