Benamar Bakhti

WriterDirector Dec 28 (died age 73) Tlemcen, Algeria 1979–1999 (20 year career)

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Biography

Born in 1941 in Tlemcen, trained at the Institute for Advanced Film Studies (IDHEC) in Paris, Benamar Bakhti (بن عمر بختي) worked for a time on French television (ORTF) as an assistant to Claude Lelouch and Jean-Paul Sassy, before returning to Algeria and joining Algerian television (RTA). After "El Khalidoune" (1969) and "Un Combattant" (1974), on the theme of the war of independence, then "Le Retour", on that of Algerian emigration to France, Benamar Bakhti distinguished himself in 1983 w…