Benamar Bakhti

Benamar Bakhti was born on 28 December 1941 in Tlemcen and trained at the Institut des hautes études de cinéma in Paris. He worked in French television as an assistant, notably to Claude Lelouch, then returned to Algeria and joined Algerian Radio and Television, for which he made telefilms on the war of independence and on emigration. It was there that he met the actor Athmane Ariouet, whom he would direct in his two cinema films. Late in life he had put himself forward for a film on the Emir Abdelkader. He died in Algiers on 3 June 2015 and is buried in the El Alia cemetery.

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• CinemaLe ClandestinBenamar Bakhti · 1989Cinema