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Tarak Ben Ammar
Tunis, Tunisia
Tarak Ben Ammar (Arabic: طارق بن عمّار; born June 12, 1949) is a Tunisian-French film producer and distributor; the owner of French production and distribution company Quinta Comm…
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Tarak Ben Ammar (Arabic: طارق بن عمّار; born June 12, 1949) is a Tunisian-French film producer and distributor; the owner of French production and distribution company Quinta Communications. He is famous for his interest in artistic movies, especially when they are related to Mediterranean culture or require North African locations. His producing credits include the Franco Zeffirelli film adaptation of La Traviata, Claude Chabrol's Death Rite, and Jean-Jacques Annaud's Black Gold (2011 Qatari film). Ben Ammar became well-known in France, at the beginning of 2004, when he decided to distribute The Passion of The Christ after everybody else declined. He appeared on television talk shows, defending the movie. He is also known as the advisor of international investor Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Bin Abdul Aziz, and French businessman Vincent Bolloré. He was formerly a manager of Michael Jackson's HIStory World Tour. Ben Ammar was born in Tunis, Tunisia; to a French Catholic mother of Corsican descent who converted to Islam, and to a Tunisian Muslim father. He was raised Muslim. He is the brother of writer Hélé Béji. His aunt Wassila Ben Ammar was the wife of the first President of Tunisia, Habib Bourguiba. Ben Ammar resides in France, with two of his three sons, Neil and Tarak Jr., and his model-singer daughter Sonia Ben Ammar, from his marriage to actress Beata (née Sonczuk) who is of Polish descent. Source: Article "Tarak Ben Ammar" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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2026
Mutiny
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
Caught Stealing
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
The Equalizer 3
Movie Executive Producer
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2022
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
Movie Executive Producer
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2019
American Skin
Movie Producer
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2018
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
TV show Executive Producer
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2014
Le triomphe inattendu de Ben-Hur Marcel
Movie Self
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2011
Black Gold
Movie Producer
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2011
Where Do We Go Now?
Movie Co-Producer
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2010
Outside the Law
Movie Producer
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2010
Miral
Movie Co-Producer
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2009
Baaria
Movie Co-Producer
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2008
A Matador's Mistress
Movie Producer
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2007
Virgin Territory
Movie Producer
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2007
The Last Legion
Movie Producer
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2007
Hannibal Rising
Movie Producer
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2006
Chromophobia
Movie Producer
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2005
Pope John Paul II
TV show Associate Producer
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2003
Boys on the Run
Movie Producer
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2003
Femme Fatale: Dream Within a Dream
Movie Self
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2002
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
Movie Executive Producer
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2002
Avenging Angelo
Movie Producer
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2002
Femme Fatale
Movie Producer
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2001
Knights of the Quest
Movie Co-Producer
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1997
Michael Jackson: HIStory World Tour - Live in Munich
Movie Executive Producer
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1995
Time
Movie Co-Producer
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1994
Foreign Student
Movie Executive Producer
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1994
Nobody's Children
Movie Executive Producer
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1993
Voyage
Movie Producer
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1992
The Dove's Lost Necklace
Movie Producer
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1992
588 rue Paradis
Movie Producer
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1991
Mother
Movie Producer
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1991
The Other
Movie Producer
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1989
On a Moonlit Night
Movie Producer
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1989
Headstrong
Movie Producer
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1988
Young Toscanini
Movie Producer
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1987
A Boy from Calabria
Movie Associate Producer
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1986
Pirates
Movie Producer
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1985
A.D.
TV show Producer
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1984
How Did You Get In? We Didn't See You Leave
Movie Producer
