Tarak Ben Ammar

Tarak Ben Ammar (rear RTL طارقبنعمّار), born the June 12th 1949 with Tunis, is a Producteur of cinema and Business man Tunisia N. It is to advise group Vivendi and of the rich person Saoudi prince Al-Walid Ben Talal.

Biography

Wire of a Tunisian father and a Corsica mother (born Gaggeri) and nephew of Wassila Bourguiba (wife of the president Habib Bourguiba), it decide to launch out in the Cinéma after having obtained a diploma in international economy with the Georgetown university with Washington.

It creates its own production company, Carthago Films, and occupies a strategic place while dealing with large turnings being held in Tunisia which wants to make of her a pole to the service of the Maghrebian cinema, Arab and African. It is the case with the Adventurers of the lost arch of Steven Spielberg or the Life of Brian of the Monty Python. In 25 years, for a total budget of more than 500 million dollars, Ben Ammar produces more than 50 films of international invoice, a success which it owes with his personality and its talent of manager. He becomes then an important producer who privileges commercial films and works especially with the France. In 1984, the president François Mitterrand decorates it with the Légion of honor in recognition for its contribution to the cinema.

One also owes him Two hours minus the quarter before Jesus-Christ (Jean Yanne), Pirates (Roman Polanski), whose turning badly proceeded following a disagreement between Ben Ammar and Polanski, Mayrig (Henri Verneuil), whose Ben Ammar ensures the executive production of his film Morfalous , and Femme fatale (Brian De Palma). It is also the distributer in Europe of the Passion of Christ , through her company Quinta Communications.

In 1994, Tarak Ben Ammar gains a victory without precedent: following a Lawsuit against bearing Universal on the film Pirate of Roman Polanski, American justice grants to him nearly 14 million dollars of damages. It is the first time, in the history of the cinema, that a foreign producer, and in addition not-Westerner, gain such an amount against powerful a major American.

He also has 14% of the capital of the Breton television channel TV Breizh. From June 1996 with 1998, it occupies the station to manage Michael Jackson and its world tour (52 concerts) produces to him.

He is majority shareholder of the Groupe Quinta which gathers most of technical industries of the cinema French such as laboratory LTC, specialized in the field of the image, Duran Duboi, specialized in the post-production and the special Effets, and Scanlab. In the field of the sound, the Quinta group gathers LOCATED, the Auditoriums of Joinville and Boulogne, Movies-Stereophony and Acousti. Moreover, the group is shareholder to a total value of 43% in the group Éclair.

Catalog of films

Producer

Executive producer

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