Omar Chanbout

Acting

Omar Chanbout

Born — Died

1938-03-02 — 2008-12-08

Place of birth

Casablanca, Morocco

Known for

Acting

Credits

14 titles

Known for

1001 Nights poster
5.2

Sheherazade has been married to a ruler who wants many wives, but only one at a time. Consequently, as soon as he has bedded them, he has them put to death. In most retellings, the girl staves off this unfortunate conclusion by putting off the connubial event for a thousand and one nights, telling irresistible stories instead. In this one, she gets hold of a magic lamp.

1001 Nights

1990

No artwork available
NR

At the beginning of the fourteenth century, Abou Salim al Juraï, Minister to the Sultan, returns from a victorious pacifying campaign across the provinces. He is welcomed by the judge Ibn al Hafid and the new governor Germon two high ranking dignitaries of the city of Salé locked in a covert rivalry. During the welcome banquet, an incident disrupts the festivities, bringing Abou Salim al Juraï into direct confrontation with Chama, a young enslaved woman. Captivated by her extraordinary beauty, the Minister immediately asks her master for her hand in marriage. For the former slave Chama, this marks the beginning of a tumultuous life as she must navigate the dangerous intrigues of the powerful.

Les Voisines d’Abou Moussa

2003

Jeremiah poster
6.9

The young Jeremiah grows up in a priest's family in the village of Anathoth, near Jerusalem. God appears to Jeremiah in different human guises on several occasions, and makes it clear that he has been selected to announce God's message to the people of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah

1998

Goodbye Mothers poster
5.0

In 1960, Moroccan Jews began migrating en masse to Israel, encouraged by immigration officers of the new state. The film tells the drama of the story of two families, one Jewish and one Muslim, joined by a close friendship but whose destinies are separated. Selected by Morocco as a candidate for the 2008 Oscar for Best Picture Foreign Language.

Goodbye Mothers

2008

Ouachtam poster
NR

Towards the end of the 1940s, in the midst of the struggle against Spanish colonialism, in the village of Aouchtam, lived the family of El Hadj, an old man suffering from blindness. He lives with his two sons and his last wife Aïcha. He suspects the latter of loving one of his sons. After an operation to restore his sight, he returns home, pretending to still be blind...

Ouachtam

1997

No artwork available
NR

A widow loses her husband in a car accident and struggles to obtain the compensation (diya) owed to her. A neighbor, Lalla Moulaty, takes advantage of her vulnerability and tries to seize the money through a series of schemes.

Al Diya

2006

Film credits

2000s · 7 titles

No artwork available
NR

At the beginning of the fourteenth century, Abou Salim al Juraï, Minister to the Sultan, returns from a victorious pacifying campaign across the provinces. He is welcomed by the judge Ibn al Hafid and the new governor Germon two high ranking dignitaries of the city of Salé locked in a covert rivalry. During the welcome banquet, an incident disrupts the festivities, bringing Abou Salim al Juraï into direct confrontation with Chama, a young enslaved woman. Captivated by her extraordinary beauty, the Minister immediately asks her master for her hand in marriage. For the former slave Chama, this marks the beginning of a tumultuous life as she must navigate the dangerous intrigues of the powerful.

Les Voisines d’Abou Moussa

2003

Goodbye Mothers poster
5.0

In 1960, Moroccan Jews began migrating en masse to Israel, encouraged by immigration officers of the new state. The film tells the drama of the story of two families, one Jewish and one Muslim, joined by a close friendship but whose destinies are separated. Selected by Morocco as a candidate for the 2008 Oscar for Best Picture Foreign Language.

Goodbye Mothers

2008

No artwork available
NR

A widow loses her husband in a car accident and struggles to obtain the compensation (diya) owed to her. A neighbor, Lalla Moulaty, takes advantage of her vulnerability and tries to seize the money through a series of schemes.

Al Diya

2006

Joseph of Nazareth poster
6.0

The people of Jerusalem are suffering under the reign of Herod, and are hoping to be delivered from the Roman occupiers by the Messiah whose arrival, it is rumored, is to take place very soon. Unlike his nephew Judas, who wants to join the zealots (freedom fighters), 35 year old widower Joseph is not interested in participating in any fighting against the Romans.

Joseph of Nazareth

2000

Illusion in the mirror poster
NR

For a film based on a fictional folk story in the world of Thousand and One Nights about Aziza, an orphan, who lives in her uncle's house and grows up with her cousin in a house, and after reaching the age of marriage, the family decides to marry them, but Aziz disappears on the wedding night, on the way home, She saw a beautiful woman who took possession of her mind and took possession of her heart, which affected her relationship with aziza.

Illusion in the mirror

2001

No artwork available
NR

A young Moroccan man returns to his hometown in one of the villages of Souss after an absence of two years that he spent in an illegal situation in France, and he is obliged to search for a way out to settle this situation. The young man, like many of his generation, has to resort to "white marriage" with the intention of solving the problem of residence and stability, so he returns to his homeland accompanied by "Monica", a 65-year-old foreigner, Events accumulate by clashing between two different cultures and two opposing perspectives.

Jodour Argan

2001

Allo Canada poster
NR

The film tells the story of Said, an agricultural engineer , who one day decided to emigrate to Canada for improve their standard of living. But his bag will be stolen from him, which contains all the documents necessary for his trip. Said, accompanied by the sister of the thief, who recently returned from Canada, they begin to follow her brother among a group of villages.

Allo Canada

2008

1990s · 5 titles

1001 Nights poster
5.2

Sheherazade has been married to a ruler who wants many wives, but only one at a time. Consequently, as soon as he has bedded them, he has them put to death. In most retellings, the girl staves off this unfortunate conclusion by putting off the connubial event for a thousand and one nights, telling irresistible stories instead. In this one, she gets hold of a magic lamp.

1001 Nights

1990

Jeremiah poster
6.9

The young Jeremiah grows up in a priest's family in the village of Anathoth, near Jerusalem. God appears to Jeremiah in different human guises on several occasions, and makes it clear that he has been selected to announce God's message to the people of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah

1998

Ouachtam poster
NR

Towards the end of the 1940s, in the midst of the struggle against Spanish colonialism, in the village of Aouchtam, lived the family of El Hadj, an old man suffering from blindness. He lives with his two sons and his last wife Aïcha. He suspects the latter of loving one of his sons. After an operation to restore his sight, he returns home, pretending to still be blind...

Ouachtam

1997

Drums of Fire poster
6.1

In 1568, Saadi prince Abdelmalek is exiled from Morocco by his brothers, an event that is only the beginning of his adventures: fighting the Spanish Inquisition, taking part in the Battle of Lepanto, being incarcerated in Alicante prison, and assist in the Conquest of Tunis. Eventually, he returns to Morocco to fulfill his destiny.

Drums of Fire

1990

The Blue Stones of the Desert poster
7.0

In a remote village in Morocco, Najib, 14 years old, is convinced that there are blue stones in the desert, whose vision has haunted him for years. Taken for a madman by his friends, he also faces the incomprehension of his family. Only the old sheikh believes in his story. One day, the council meets to decide on his case.

The Blue Stones of the Desert

1992