BENAMAR BAKHTI
DIRECTING
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 with "Cheikh Bouamama", an RTA blockbuster devoted to the Ouled Sidi Cheikh revolt against the French army in the 1880s.
"The return".
With "Le Clandestin" at the turn of 1991, Benamar Bakhti distinguished himself this time on the register of an unbridled comedy which staged the tribulations of the improbable occupants of an illegal taxi, on the roads of the Algerian countryside.
