
Acting
Jun 2, 1954
Mrizig, Morocco
Mohamed Bastaoui
Acting
Biography
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.
Feature Films (34)

A 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

1981, Morocco. A village in the Atlas mountains. A city in the distance. A child. A family facing its destiny.
A Thousand Months

Mustapha 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

The 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

Jawhara 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

Just 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

Casablanca, 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

In 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

Allal, 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

Maya 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
Television & Series (4)

The 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

Dar 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

A 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.



