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Filmmaker · Tunisia

Abdellatif Ben Ammar

Died in 2023

Abdellatif Ben Ammar was born on 25 April 1943 in Tunis. After the Lycée Alaoui and studies in mathematics, he obtained in 1965 the diploma in cinematography from the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques, in Paris. Director of photography of the Tunisian newsreels from 1965 to 1968, he was camera operator and assistant on Tunisian and foreign films, notably for Rossellini and Zeffirelli, and co-founded with Abdellatif Layouni a production company. Vice-president of the union of independent producers, he died in Tunis on 6 February 2023, at the age of seventy-nine.

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