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Filmmaker · Morocco

Nabyl Lahlou

Died in 2026

Nabyl Lahlou was born in Fès in 1945. He studied dramatic art in Paris, at the Charles Dullin school and at the Académie du théâtre de la rue Blanche, taught theatre in Algeria and returned to Morocco in 1970, where he had staged his first play in 1965. An author of plays in French as well as in Arabic, he reworked Shakespeare several times in a Morocco emerging from colonisation. Having moved into cinema in 1975, he produced and directed his own screenplays, in which he often took the leading role. He died in Rabat on 7 May 2026.

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