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Morocco-Ouarzazate, Morocco's Hollywood

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Ouallywood, aka Ouarzazate, is coming back. After some years of crisis Morocco’s best movies location is gone back to his full glory with 18 movies and TV serials only in 2014. Today for the Guardian Ouarzazate’s sets and locations are betewwn the best ten of the world and suitable for any type of production, the Jerusalem created for The Crusades of Ridley Scott has been transformed into Baghdad and in a location of Game of Thrones. The secret weapons of Ouarzazate are a weather with sunshine three hundred days a year, lights that don’t need filters and biblical landscapes better of thewildest dreams of any director. After Lawrence of Arabia, in 1962, Roman legions, Crusaders and Egyptian armies, passionate loves and palace conspiracies shaked forever this French Foreign Legion outpost founded in 1928 in a strategic position between the Sahara desert and the Atlas mountains. It is estimated that in Ouarzazate about thirty five thousand people, and indirectly about thirty thousand of the seventy thousand inhabitants, live almost exclusively of cinema. In his golden years Ouallywood has become one of the favorite locations for large productions on historical themes, from The Sheltering Sky to The Gladiator and Kundun, interpreting also a lot of holy cities. The ancient Rome materializes inside the Musée du Cinema opened in 2007 where Pompeian frescoes precede a barbaric-fantasy golden chair, the Throne Room that serves also as Roman Senate, while the Jerusalem of The Kingdom of Heaven is at the end of a desert track. Thousand of tourists go every year on pilgrimage to the historic Atlas Studios where an orgy of wood and styrofoam reveals the forbidden world of the temple of Luxor revisited by Asterix and Obelix or the Tibetan monastery of Kundun. Out of town spectacular kasbahs are good for any set, while en route to Agadir some rusty Oldsmobiles before a distributor that promises "Cold Beer, Gas Haven, Last Stop 200 miles" announces the ruins of post-modern set of The hills Have Eyes, a horror-splatter movie by Alexandre Jouan-Arcady, a remake of Wes Craven’s movie.

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  • Atlas Studios. First Film Studio located in North Africa, the site is spread over 20 hectares with many sets of the multiple movies turned in studios.
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  • Atlas Studios. First Film Studio located in North Africa, the site is spread over 20 hectares with many sets of the multiple movies turned in studios.
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  • Atlas Studios. Luxor set, Egyptian temple for Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra. <br />
Atlas Studios are the first Film Studio located in North Africa, the site is spread over 20 hectares with many sets of the multiple movies turned in studios.
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  • Atlas Studios. Luxor set, Egyptian temple for Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra. <br />
Atlas Studios are the first Film Studio located in North Africa, the site is spread over 20 hectares with many sets of the multiple movies turned in studios.
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  • Atlas Studios. Luxor set, Egyptian temple for Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra. <br />
Atlas Studios are the first Film Studio located in North Africa, the site is spread over 20 hectares with many sets of the multiple movies turned in studios.
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  • Atlas Studios. Luxor set, Egyptian temple for Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra. <br />
Atlas Studios are the first Film Studio located in North Africa, the site is spread over 20 hectares with many sets of the multiple movies turned in studios.
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  • Atlas Studios. Luxor set, Egyptian temple for Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra. <br />
Atlas Studios are the first Film Studio located in North Africa, the site is spread over 20 hectares with many sets of the multiple movies turned in studios.
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  • Atlas Studios. Luxor set, Egyptian temple for Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra. <br />
Atlas Studios are the first Film Studio located in North Africa, the site is spread over 20 hectares with many sets of the multiple movies turned in studios.
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  • Atlas Studios. Julius Caesar's house for Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra. <br />
Atlas Studios are the first Film Studio located in North Africa, the site is spread over 20 hectares with many sets of the multiple movies turned in studios.
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  • Atlas Studios. Buddhist temple set for Kundun. Atlas Studios are the first Film Studio located in North Africa, the site is spread over 20 hectares with many sets of the multiple movies turned in studios.
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  • Atlas Studios. Buddhist temple set for Kundun. Atlas Studios are the first Film Studio located in North Africa, the site is spread over 20 hectares with many sets of the multiple movies turned in studios.
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  • Atlas Studios. Buddhist temple set for Kundun. Atlas Studios are the first Film Studio located in North Africa, the site is spread over 20 hectares with many sets of the multiple movies turned in studios.
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  • Atlas Studios. Buddhist temple set for Kundun. Atlas Studios are the first Film Studio located in North Africa, the site is spread over 20 hectares with many sets of the multiple movies turned in studios.
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  • Atlas Studios. Buddhist temple set for Kundun. Atlas Studios are the first Film Studio located in North Africa, the site is spread over 20 hectares with many sets of the multiple movies turned in studios.
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  • Atlas Studios. Buddhist temple set for Kundun. Atlas Studios are the first Film Studio located in North Africa, the site is spread over 20 hectares with many sets of the multiple movies turned in studios.
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  • Atlas Studios. First Film Studio located in North Africa, the site is spread over 20 hectares with many sets of the multiple movies turned in studios.
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  • Atlas Studios. Ben Hur's chariot. Atlas Studios are the first Film Studio located in North Africa, the site is spread over 20 hectares with many sets of the multiple movies turned in studios.
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  • Atlas Studios. Ben Hur's house set. Atlas Studios are the first Film Studio located in North Africa, the site is spread over 20 hectares with many sets of the multiple movies turned in studios.
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  • Atlas Studios. Tangier set for Journey to Mecca: In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta. Atlas Studios are the first Film Studio located in North Africa, the site is spread over 20 hectares with many sets of the multiple movies turned in studios.
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  • CLA Studios. Jerusalem set for The Kingdom of Heaven. The t has been utilised also as Baghdad and for a location of Game of Thrones.
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  • CLA Studios. Jerusalem set for The Kingdom of Heaven. The t has been utilised also as Baghdad and for a location of Game of Thrones.
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  • CLA Studios. Jerusalem set for The Kingdom of Heaven. The t has been utilised also as Baghdad and for a location of Game of Thrones.
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  • CLA Studios. Jerusalem set for The Kingdom of Heaven. The t has been utilised also as Baghdad and for a location of Game of Thrones.
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  • CLA Studios. Jerusalem set for The Kingdom of Heaven. The t has been utilised also as Baghdad and for a location of Game of Thrones.
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  • CLA Studios. Jerusalem set for The Kingdom of Heaven. The t has been utilised also as Baghdad and for a location of Game of Thrones.
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  • CLA Studios. Jerusalem set for The Kingdom of Heaven. The t has been utilised also as Baghdad and for a location of Game of Thrones.
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  • CLA Studios. Jerusalem set for The Kingdom of Heaven. The t has been utilised also as Baghdad and for a location of Game of Thrones.
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  • CLA Studios. Jerusalem set for The Kingdom of Heaven. The t has been utilised also as Baghdad and for a location of Game of Thrones.
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  • CLA Studios. The Mecca set.
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  • CLA Studios. The Mecca set.
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  • CLA Studios.
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  • CLA Studios.
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  • CLA Studios.The Museum with  many objects utilised for the movies.
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  • CLA Studios.The Museum with  many objects utilised for the movies.
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  • CLA Studios.The Museum with  many objects utilised for the movies.
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  • CLA Studios.The Museum with  many objects utilised for the movies.
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  • CLA Studios.
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  • CLA Studios.Ben hur set ship.
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  • CLA Studios.Ben hur set ship.
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  • CLA Studios. Chariot utilised for the Gladiator.
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  • USA gas station set for the horror movie The hills have eyes.
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  • USA gas station set for the horror movie The hills have eyes.
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  • USA gas station set for the horror movie The hills have eyes.
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  • USA gas station set for the horror movie The hills have eyes.
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  • USA gas station set for the horror movie The hills have eyes.
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  • USA gas station set for the horror movie The hills have eyes.
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  • USA gas station set for the horror movie The hills have eyes.
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  • Cinema Museum.
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  • Cinema Museum. The Hall of Throne often utilised as Roman Senate.
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  • Cinema Museum. Roman House.
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  • Cinema Museum. Roman House.
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  • Cinema Museum. Romanesque cloister.
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  • Cinema Museum. Romanesque cloister.
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  • Cinema Museum. Jewish Menorah.
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  • Cinema Museum. The Jail utilised in many movies withJesus Christ or Bible's stories.
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  • Cinema Museum. Temple.
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  • Nacer Oujri, worked in more than 250 movies and also in Pierpaolo Pasolini's Italian movie Oedipus Rex (1967) one of the firs productions in Ouarzazate.
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  • Nacer Oujri, worked in more than 250 movies and also in Pierpaolo Pasolini's Italian movie Oedipus Rex (1967) one of the firs productions in Ouarzazate.
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  • Rond point inspired by movies.
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  • Tiffoulfout kasbah often utilised as set.
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  • Tiffoulfout kasbah often utilised as set.
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  • Taourirt kasbah often utilised as set.
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  • Taourirt kasbah often utilised as set.
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  • Taourirt kasbah often utilised as set.
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  • HotelOscar, inside the AtlasStudios.
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  • HotelOscar, inside the AtlasStudios.
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  • HotelOscar, inside the AtlasStudios.
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  • HotelOscar, inside the AtlasStudios.
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  • HotelOscar, inside the AtlasStudios.
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  • Cinema Museum. Cleopatra's chariot.
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