
Acting
Mohamed Bastaoui
Born — Died
1954-06-03 — 2014-12-17
Place of birth
Mrizig, Morocco
Known for
Acting
Credits
34 titles
A famous Moroccan actor was born in Mrizig on June 3, 1954 and died in Rabat on December 17, 2014 with a career spanning 30 years. He begin his acting career in the theater on 1987, with a theater group called "Masrah al Yaoum", Then ten years later with group "The sun". In cinema, his career started in the late 1990s, exactly on 1998 into a movie "Adieu Forain" And then rolled his roles simple and complex in several films, series and plays. His departure left a great sadness for his friends in the profession or the Moroccan public in general.
Known for
NRHemaida is a young man who leaves his mother to travel to the city of Casablanca, where his friend Al Arabi is going to help him find a job and provide him with accommodation. However, he faces many problems while he is there when he discovers that his friend works in drug trafficking.
The Shore Waves
2001
5.9Maya is living the ultimate fashionistas dream: she is working as a stylist for one of the French trend setters, in the capital of haute-couture: Paris. One of the IT girls of fashion, shes following her dreams until one night, when her life takes a sudden turn: shes being deported back to Morocco, after being stopped for over speeding, because her Visa expired some time ago. So in no more than 24 hours, shes deported back to her family and original country. The strong cultural shock and the judgmental differences are pushing the woman to obtain back her place in the city of dreams and her dreams, no matter the costs. But that doesn't mean she will have to return alone, as she finds other things also among her way back to the city.
Paris or Perish
2013
NRThree unemployed university graduates—M'Faddal, Abdelhamid, and Abdeslam—who struggle to find work and face harsh economic realities before considering drastic choices like illegal emigration.
Awlad Lablad
2010
NROmar, the miller's son, has been in love with Laila, the daughter of the local landowner, since childhood. In adulthood, Omar has become a promising journalist and writer. He still loves Laila, but she has promised herself to someone else to save her family from bankruptcy...
Anger
2012
6.6A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rousing victories. A simple shepherd boy chosen to be king, under the watchful eyes of prophet Samuel.
David
1997
6.9The 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
Film credits
2010s · 10 titles
5.9Maya is living the ultimate fashionistas dream: she is working as a stylist for one of the French trend setters, in the capital of haute-couture: Paris. One of the IT girls of fashion, shes following her dreams until one night, when her life takes a sudden turn: shes being deported back to Morocco, after being stopped for over speeding, because her Visa expired some time ago. So in no more than 24 hours, shes deported back to her family and original country. The strong cultural shock and the judgmental differences are pushing the woman to obtain back her place in the city of dreams and her dreams, no matter the costs. But that doesn't mean she will have to return alone, as she finds other things also among her way back to the city.
Paris or Perish
2013
NRThree unemployed university graduates—M'Faddal, Abdelhamid, and Abdeslam—who struggle to find work and face harsh economic realities before considering drastic choices like illegal emigration.
Awlad Lablad
2010
NROmar, the miller's son, has been in love with Laila, the daughter of the local landowner, since childhood. In adulthood, Omar has become a promising journalist and writer. He still loves Laila, but she has promised herself to someone else to save her family from bankruptcy...
Anger
2012
NRWhen the boss of a middle-aged man, who suffers from psychological problems related to women, asks him to have a customary marriage with some girl in order to conclude an important deal for the company he works for, the man becomes consumed by an internal conflict.
The Groom
2016
NRUpon his release from prison, Ahmed tries to get his life back on track as best he can. He reunites with his cellmate, Lhoussine, with whom he runs a modest plant nursery on the outskirts of the city. However, his main goal remains finding his missing wife, Atika. He befriends Halima, who has been living alone in seclusion since the accidental death of her husband.
Memory of clay
2012
NRMustapha is a forty-year-old barber in Casablanca. His clients are retired high-ranking government officials, former cabinet ministers and power brokers in Morocco. On the side, Mustapha has an underground business "facilitating" paperwork, using his privileged access to these retired bigwigs to grease the wheels of bureaucracy. While his operation thrives, Mustapha keeps a shameful secret: he is illiterate, and has hired Said to assist him with managing appointments and tracking transactions. He does not know that Said is being paid to monitor his underground dealings.
Rough Hands
2011
NRAziz is chased by three brothers who want to avenge their sister, He meets Daoui a retiree in search of recognition. The film tells the story of this tormented journey.
Agadir Express
2014
6.7In the early years of the reign of Hassan II, Houcine, a fan of the new king, is the director of a popular orchestra and the proud father of Mimou. This is a very particular troupe, male musicians who are sometimes forced to pretend that they are blind in order to play at parties reserved for women in conservative Moroccan families. But then young Minou runs into Chama, the neighbor’s new maid
The Blind Orchestra
2016
7.0During the Algerian war, the road to Beni Boussaid on the Morocco-Algeria border is obstructed by the Morice line, a 430-mile long belt that is electrified and heavily mined. Moussa, a Moroccan friend of the revolution, helps refugees across the mountains. However, he must go through Beni Boussaid when he finds out that the path he usually takes is no longer safe. Hans, a Communist militant of the GDR, loses a leg on the way, while trying to remove a mine from a passageway. Normally, the wounded and sick are put to rest, but Hans is not a Muslim and cannot be a martyr.
Sotto Voce
2013
NRNo synopsis available yet.
L'écharpe rouge
2015
2000s · 16 titles
NRHemaida is a young man who leaves his mother to travel to the city of Casablanca, where his friend Al Arabi is going to help him find a job and provide him with accommodation. However, he faces many problems while he is there when he discovers that his friend works in drug trafficking.
The Shore Waves
2001
8.0Jawhara has grown in prison after the rape of her mother, Safia, and has lived for six years behind bars by her mother's side. Through her innocent vision, Jawhara grew up looking and watching the world of families telling the story that brought her mother together with her alleged father Saeed. Saeed and Safiya lived together a period of youth marked by enthusiasm and ideal values. Inhuman living conditions. Jewel's search for the truth of her mother and father's story leads her to tragedy...
Jawhara : Jail Girl
2003
NRThe movie is about an alcoholic policeman who abuses his wife and his children .
Break
2006
6.5Just like so many North Africans, a young Moroccan woman wants to reach Spain by the sea. But she'll face a lot of difficulties along the way.
Tarfaya
2004
NRThe film tells the story of a maid who is the only witness to a murder involving the son of a former minister. She hesitates a lot before informing the police of the crime, and from here begins the threat and problems.
The witness
2003
8.0Amina is on a trip to the North where her husband is imprisoned for a drug case. When her car breaks down, she meets Lalla Rahma, an old lady who must also go to the North to make sure that her son did not die while illegally crossing the sea to Europe.
Women's Road
2007
NRHaj Lakbir preserved his agricultural legacy, and even worked to develop it. He is the father of two sons, each named Muhammad and Abdul Rahman, and he also has a daughter named Al-Salha. The latter was favored by her father, who brought her close to him, and began to consult her and rely on her on many matters, while Muhammad and Abdul Rahman were marginalized, in contrast to the customs and traditions of the rural world, which give preference to men over women. What distinguishes Al-Salha is that she is a mature woman, very intelligent and persistent, while her two brothers are dominated by lethargy and weak personality. In the midst of events, the character of Bouchaib, one of the village's sons, emerges. He is a reckless person. He spends most of his time hanging around bars, scattering his father Hajj Al-Muati’s wealth left and right. This young man wants to marry Al-Salha, a request that does not receive the blessing of Hajj Lakbir or Hajj Al-Muati.
SALHA
2009
NRAllal, a street vendor who sells vegetables to cover the expenses of treating his seriously ill daughter, decides to travel to another city due to bad conditions. He works as a truck driver and lives in the hope of working for a large company owned by the son of one of his friends who comes from abroad.
Allal Al Kalda
2003
Fatima is assaulted by Bouktaf, a former prisoner. Bougouffa, a mute man who witnessed what happened, helps Fatima's parents and the police identify the attacker. But Fatima's statements become uncertain when she sees the suspect at the police station.
Bougouffa
2006
7.1Casablanca, a city of contrasts, modern and traditional. Kamel is a murderer for hire who receives his encrypted assignments online. After his executions, he usually calls Souad, an occasional prostitute. But the phone is always answered by her friend Kenza, traffic officer and responsible for the largest roundabout in the city. Kamel soon falls in love with that voice and begins to seek her. Meanwhile, Hicham, a computer hacker, who dreams of emigrating to Europe, is infiltrated by chance in Kamel plans ...
WWW: What a Wonderful World
2006
9.0In one of the Moroccan villages, the competition is for those who are elected to run the village affairs, and then agree on the establishment of a football team as a criterion for competition.
El Kabch
2007
NRThami works as an extra in foreign films shot in a small village near Ouarzazate. He became a friend of Pier Paolo Pasolini, who shot in 1966 his movie Oedipus Rex in Morocco. Forty years later, an Italian crew comes to Ouarzazate to shoot a film. Thami thinks his friend Pasolini is back in town and thus triggering cinema fever in all the locals.
Waiting for Pasolini
2007
NRThe film is an autobiography of the Moroccan visual artist Benhaila Regrakia. Regrakia grows up in a conservative family that clings to its traditions, which are based on valuing the man and granting him absolute authority within the family. She finds herself trapped between self-affirmation, which is considered a departure from the norm within her family, and between traditions and social reality. Cruel.
Regraguia
2009
NRDemande d’Emploi is the story of three young Moroccans from working-class neighborhoods, graduates and unemployed, looking for work, but also a love story in the background.
Demande D’Emploi
2005
NRThe film tells about the Moroccan past in its black section in the years of lead, the experience of the left in Morocco, and the wave of arrests at that time. After the 1971 coup attempt, the soldiers began to defend themselves that they were carrying out orders. The former Minister of the Interior, ADISC, asks for a written order to do his work. Everyone hides behind duty. Khaled is a young doctor in a hospital in Casablanca. He meets a man on death row. He killed all his family members. His name is Jamal, a detective who was working alongside a man he met a year ago with a burner. Jamal could not burn Ahmed al-Sabbar, so he killed all his family except his daughter Lamia, then burned the bodies, and blamed Ahmed al-Sabbar, who remained silent. The judge who sentenced Ahmed suffers from marital problems His wife is cheating on him with a young advisor, so the lover is killed and the circles go round.
Taif Nizar
2002
5.41981, Morocco. A village in the Atlas mountains. A city in the distance. A child. A family facing its destiny.
A Thousand Months
2003
1990s · 4 titles
6.6A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rousing victories. A simple shepherd boy chosen to be king, under the watchful eyes of prophet Samuel.
David
1997
6.9The 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
3.3The nomadic life of Moroccan carnival performers forms the basis of this debut from director Daoud Aoulad-Syad. Rabi, a female impersonator who dances with traveling fairs, teams up with Kacem, who hires him to ballyhoo his gambling concession. While Rabi's lack of romantic interest in women befuddles Kacem's son, he does strike up a friendship with a schoolteacher (Nezha Rahile), who in her way is as much of a misfit as Rabi.
Bye-Bye Souirty
1998
In Morocco, just before modern times, Ould Bah is the eldest of a powerful man reigning on a kasbah on the side of the Saharian Atlas. A spoiled child, he was excluded from the succession of his younger brother. Ould Bah then decides to bend the spell ...
Atlas Treasures
1997
Series credits
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Terre de lumière
2008
8.0Dar El Ghazlan is a Moroccan drama series that aired in 2015. It was written by Narjiss El Mouden and directed by Idriss Roukh , and stars Mohamed Bastaoui , Mariam Zaïmi , Oussama Bastaoui , Noura Skalli , Mohamed Choubi , and Donia Boutazout . The story revolves around a young doctor who moves to work at a clinic in a village, where he experiences a series of events and situations that change his perspective on life.
Dar Al Ghezlan
2015
8.0The series is based on the French novel The Land by Emile Zola. Its episodes revolve around the human relationship with the land, as the wealthy farmer, Mr. Ahmed, decided to give away his lands to his three children, but one of them, called Al-Mahidi, refused to leave his family home. He married his cousin, the Sabura, who inherited a great inheritance, but that did not prevent him from pursuing his cousin for another Tayi cirka pour Cel.
W'jaa Trab
2006
6.0A biopic about the late Moroccan singer Mohamed El Hayani, as the events begin in 1964 during El Hayani's youth, depicting aspects of his personal life when he applied for a test for talents on the Moroccan radio, to continue with later stages in his career until his death in 1996.
El Hayani
2012
