Chafik Shimi

Moroccan actor and filmmaker born on 23 February 1948 in Casablanca. After his secondary studies he left for Lebanon for two years. Returning from the Middle East, he began to do amateur theater and translated plays by Bertolt Brecht, an author whom he introduced to the Moroccan public with the collaboration of the Goethe Institute in Casablanca. He left for France where he decided to pursue studies in sociology, then economics. Two years later, he definitively changed direction and opted for the theatrical and cinematographic studies department of the University of Paris VIII. He then entered the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art (CNSAD) in Paris where he received acting training under the direction of Pierre Debauche, Marcel Bluwal, Antoine Vitez, Jean-Pierre Michaël and Michel Bouquet. At the same time, he attended the École du Louvre and took art history classes there for 4 years. Chafik Shimi develops during this period a whole work on the play of the storyteller and the...