Les visiteurs tomberont sous le charme des temples égyptiens, des monastères tibétains, ou encore de villes bibliques reconstitués en plein désert. ATLAS STUDIOS OUARZAZATE, SINCE 1983...
Thanks to the Atlas studios built in 1983, the economy of the region knew a fast development.Film shooting helped the tourism economy by making advertisements to the city all over the world. In the 80’s, the first movie shot in the Atlas Studios was « The Jewel of the Nile » starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Dany Devito followed in 1986 by the shooting of the 15th James Bond film with Timoty Dalton, « The Living Daylights ». With this new cinema industry, people of the region started to have new job opportunities : hiring people in films as figurants, employees in making the decorum, translators between the employees and the foreigners, as stuntman or acrobat and all those jobs helped minimizing the number of unemployed. At the end of the 90’s, and more exactly in 1998, the Atlas Studios have known the most impacted movie shot since their creation with the blockbuster « GLADIATOR » directed by Ridley Scott and staring the incredible Russel Crowe. The professionals of the cinema industry started to consider Ouarzazate as the African capital of Cinema, nicknamed « OUARZAWOOD ». Since then, Ouarzazate started to be given consideration by many famous directors of cinema as Martin Scorsese, and visited by international stars like, Samuel L. Jackson, Jean-Claude VanDamne, Ben Kingsley, Nicole Kidman, Brad Pitt, Jean Paul Belmondo, Russel Craw, Leonardo Di Caprio, and many more…
