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Merzak Allouache was born in 1944 in Algiers. Between 1964 and 1967 he made a cinematic education at the National institute of cinema in Algiers. In 1967 he received his certificate of direction at the IDHEC, the cinematic university of Paris. Thereupon he pursued theoretical studies concerning the cinema at the "Ecole Pratique de Hautes Etudes" in Paris. 1972-1974 Merzak Allouache worked as a consultant at the ministry of culture and as an assistant director with Slim Riad. Since 1974 he shot …