Tony Gatlif

Tony Gatlif
Tony Gatlif in 2016
Born
Michel Dahmani

(1948-09-10) 10 September 1948
Occupation(s)Film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, composer

Tony Gatlif is a French film director who also works as a screenwriter, composer, actor, and producer. Born 10 September 1948 as Michel (Boualem) Dahmani in Algeria, then officially part of France, to a Berber (Kabyle) father and an Andalusian-Romani mother, Gatlif’s cultural background is fairly complex.