Sejarah Mencatat setidaknya sejak satu abad yang lalu telah ada pembuatan film Asing di bumi maghribi ini, keberadaanya yang dekat dengan Eropa menjadikanya lokasi pilihan bagi sebagian produsen film eropa, dan kini dengan pesona alam yang eksotis dan budaya yang unik telah menjadikanya salah satu tujuan favorit sutradara berkelas dunia untuk lokasi syuting film, sederet film box office pun terlahir disana.
Kerajaan Maroko melalui kementrian budayanya memang cukup serius dalam menggali dollar dari sektor ini, dibuatnya beberapa studio besar dan komplit dengan sekala internasional dan menjadikannya satu buah kota sebagai ibu kota film internasional yaitu kota Ouarzazate.
Tahun 2006 pertama kali saya ke ouarzazate, waktu itu setidaknya ada lima lokasi bekas syuting film yang masih terjaga baik, diantaranya film kundun, film Kingdom of Heaven, saya sempat berphoto di benteng salahudin bekas orlando bloom kepleset, hahahah.. juga bekas film celeopatra dan The Mummy, imajinasi saya pun terbawa seolah sedang berada di luxor mesir, semua bangunan megah mesir ada disana sampai perkampungan kuno mesir pun tersedia, dengan heran saya sempat bertanya kepemandu tour waktu itu, "kok kenapa syutingnya di maroko bukan dimesir?","disini lebih murah dan bebas politik" katanya singkat.
Tidak tertinggal beberapa Hotelpun menjadi tempat persinggahan artis terkenal, seperti Hotel Oscar, pertama kali memasukinya sudah terpasang beberapa poster film yang pernah syuting disana, sampai penjaga kafe di hotel itu bercerita bangga kepada saya kalau dia pernah memberikan satu gelas teh untuk angelina jolie dan Brad pitt, dan saya pun dengan nada bercanda menjawabnya kalau suatu hari nanti saya akan syuting film disitu, hahahah... bapak penjaga kafe itu pun dengan serius mengamininya.
Entahlah, apakah do'a penjaga kafe yang dikabulkan atau hanya sebuah kebetulan, dua tahun kemudian saya mendapat tawaran untuk ikut jadi piguran film "Prince of Persia, the sands of time", tanpa pikir panjang saya langsung ikut, dan inilah kesempatan pertama bertemu artis dan aktor hollywood, awalnya memang seperti mimpi tetapi dalam nyata, kulihat betapa profesionalnya produksi sebuah film yang didukung oleh artis yang ramah dan tentunya lokasi syuting yang sangat menakjubkan, segelas teh disuguhkan oleh penjaga cafe yang dulu pernah ketemu.
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Mengingat masa itu, seakan mengembalikan saya akan sebuah ide, mengapa kita tidak belajar dari Maroko dan menjadikan hutan tropis sebagai studio alam, maroko telah berhasil merubah pasir, gurun, gunung, sungai dan kotanya menjadi tempat yang berharga dan sarana promosi wisata gratis, mari kita lihat beberapa film yang pernah mengambil lokasi syuting di maroko yang saya himpun dari paman google dibawah ini:
1897: The Moroccan knight ; by Louis lumiére ( French )
1919 : Mektoub ; by J. PINCHON et Daniel QUINTIN ( French )
1921 : Die Geliebte des Schahs ; by Adolf Gärtner ( GERMANY )
1922 : Antar ; by Jean LEUNE ( French )
1924 : Die Andere ; by Gerhard Lamprecht ( GERMANY )
1925 : Ruta Gloriosa ; by Feando Delgado ( Spain )
1927 : Jacobito Castigador ; by Rafael López Rienda ( SPAIN )
1927: Wenndie Schwalben heimwarts ; by James BAUER ( Germany )
1927 : Águilas de acero o los misterios de Tánger ; by Florián Rey ( Spain )
1929 : Flucht in die Fremdenlegion ; by Louis Ralph ( Germany )
1930 : Storm of Marrakesh ; by Jacques SEVERAC ( Germany )
1934 : Itto ; by Jean Benoît-Lévy ( FRENCH )
1935 : La Bandera ; Julien Duvivier ( FRENCH )
1939 : Romancero Marroqui ; by Enrique Domínguez Rodiño ( Spain )
1940 : Le chemin de l’honneur ; by Jean-Paul PAULIN ( French )
1941 : iHarka ; by Carlos Arévalo ( Spain )
1942 : A mí la legión ; by Juan de Orduña ( SPAIN )
1942 : Los Misterios de Tanger ; by Carlos Feández Cuenca ( SPAIN )
1946 : La deière chevauchée ; Léon MATHOT ( french )
1948 : Manon ; by Henri-Georges CLOUZOT ( French )
1948 : Alhucemas ; by José López Rubio ( Spain )
1948 : Vi Seiler ; Toralf Sandø ( Norway )
1949 : Othello ; by Orson WELLES ( USA )
1949 : Outpost in Morocco ; by Robert Florey ( USA )
1950 : L’Homme de la Jamaïque ; by Maurice de Canonge ( FRENCH )
1950 : Sin Uniforme ; by Ladislao Vajda ( SPAIN )
1950 : The Black Rose ; by Henry Hathaway ( UK )
1951 : Una Cubana en Espana ; by Luis Bayón Herrera (Argentina )
1952 : Manina, la fille sans voile ; by Willy Rozier ( French )
1952 : Manchas de sangre en la luna ; by Luis Marquina&Edward Dein ( Spain )
1952 : La Llamada de África ; by César Feández Ardavín ( SPAIN )
1953 : Flight to Tangier ; by Charles-Marquis WARREN ( USA )
1954 : Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; by Jacques Becker ( French)
1955 : The man who knew too much ; by Alfred HITCHCOCK ( USA )
1955 : Another sky ; by Gavin LAMBERT ( UK )
1956 : La Mestiza ; by José María Ochoa ( SPAIN )
1957 : Assignment Foreign Legion ; by Herman Blaser ( USA )
1958 : Madeleine und der Legionär ; by Wolfgang Staudte ( GERMANY )
1959 : Salammbo ; by Sergio GRIECO ( ITALY )
1959 : Mission In Morocco ; by Carlos Arévalo&Anthony Squire ( Spain )
1960 : Peter Voss, Der Held des Tages ; by Georg MARISHKA ( Germany )
1961 : The inspector ; by Philip DUNNE ( USA )
1962 : Sodom and Gomorrah ; by Robert Aldrich ( ITALY )
1962 : Lawrence Of Arabia ; by David LEAN ( UK )
1963 : Le grand escroc ; by Jean-Luc GODARD ( french )
1963 : The Ceremony ; by Laurence Harvey ( USA )
1964 : Cent mille dollars au soleil ; Henri Veeuil ( French )
1965 : La Dama de Beirut ; Ladislao Vajda ( SPAIN )
1965 : Marie-Chantal contre le docteur Kha ; by Claude Chabrol ( French )
1966 : Our Man in Marrakesh ; by Don Sharp ( UK )
1966 : Rembrandt 7 antwortet nicht ; by Giancarlo Romitelli ( Germany )
1967 : Oedipus Rex ; by Pier Paolo PASOLINI ( ITALY )
1967 : A Ghentar si muore facile ; by León Klimovsky ( ITALY )
1969 : Queimda ; Gillo Pontecorvo ( ITALY )
1970 : Tuo dolce corpo da uccidere ; by Alfonso Brescia ( Italy )
1970 : Patton ; by Franklin SHAFFNER ( USA )
1971 : Calde notti di Don Giovanni, Le ; Alfonso Brescia ( Italy )
1972 : Young Winston ; by Richard Attenborough ( UK )
1972 : Travel with My Aunt ; by George Cukor ( USA )
1973 : Story of a Love Story ; John Frankenheimer ( ITALY )
1975 : The Retu of the Pink Panther ; by Blake Edwards ( UK )
1975 : The man who would be king ; by John HUSTON ( USA )
1975 : Faustrecht der Freiheit ; by Rainer Weer Fassbinder ( GERMANY )
1976 : Al Rissalah ; by Moustapha Akkad ( LIBYA )
1976 : Emanuelle nera orient reportage ; by Joe D'Amato ( Italy )
1977 : Tänzerinnen für Tanger ; by Jack Guy ( Germany )
1977 : Jesus of nazareth ; by Franco Zeffirelli ( Italy )
1980 : Comme une femme ; by Christian Dura ( Canada )
1981 : Rollover ; by Alan Pakula ; ( USA )
1982 : Marco Polo ; by Giuliano Montaldo ( ITALY )
1982 : Le Choc ; by Robin Davis ( FRENCH )
1982 : Tangiers ; Michael E. Briant ( USA )
1983 : Banzai ; by Claude Zidi ( French )
1983 : The Black Stallion Retus ; ( USA )
1984 : Fort Saganne ; by Alain Coeau ( FRENCH )
1984 : Bolero ; by John Derek ( USA )
1984 : Le Vol du Sphinx ; by Laurent Ferrier ( French )
1985 : The Jewel of Nile ; by Michael Douglas ( USA )
1985 : Spies Like Us ; by John Landis ( USA )
1986 : Harem ; by William Hale ( USA )
1987 : Napoleon and Josephine ; by Richard T. Heffron ( USA )
1987 : Prick Up Your Ears ; by Stephen Frears ( UK )
1987 : Ishtar ; by Elaine May ( USA )
1987 : The Living Daylights, James Bond ; by John Glen ( UK )
1987: Les Patterson Saves the World ; by George Miller ( Australia )
1987 : Long xiong hu di ; by Jackie Chan ( HONG KONG )
1988 : Come sono buoni i bianchi ; by Marco Ferreri ( Italy )
1988 : The Last Temptation of Christ ; by Martin Scorsese ( USA )
1988 : Windmills of the Gods ; by Lee Philips ( USA )
1989 : Bajarse al moro ; by Feando Colomo ( Spain )
1989 : Casablanca Express ; by Sergio Martino ( ITALY )
1989 : Tacknamn Coq Rouge ; Per Berglund ( Sweden )
1990 : Fiendens fiende ; by "Fiendens fiende&Mats Arehn ( Sweden )
1990 : The Sheltering Sky ; by Beardo Bertolucci ( ITALY – UK )
1991 : Fei ying gai wak , Jackie CHAN ( HONG KONG )
1992 : Alma rifena ; by José Buchs ( SPAIN )
1993 : Being Human ; by Bill Forsyth ( UK )
1994 : Jacob ; Peter Hall ( ITALY )
1994 : A Business Affair ; by Charlotte Brandstrom ( UK )
1994 : Abraham ; by Joseph Sargent ( ITALY, USA )
1994 : Highlander III ; by Anrew Morahan ( USA )
1994 : Unveiled ; by William Cole ( USA )
1995 : Slave of Dreams ; by Robert M. Young ( USA )
1995 : Joseph ; by Roger Young ( USA )
1996 : Moses ; by Roger Young ( USA )
1996 : Jerusalem ; by Bille August ( Sweden )
1996 : Samson and Delilah ; by Nicolas Roeg ( USA )
1966 : A 077, sfida ai killers ; by Antonio Margheriti ( ITALY )
1977 : Kundun ; by Martin Scorsese ( USA )
1997 : Solomon ; by Roger Young ( ITALY )
1997 : Soleil ; by Roger Hanin ( French )
1997 : The Visual Bible ; by Reghardt van den Bergh ( South Africa )
1998 : Jeremiah ; by Harry Winer ( ITALY )
1998 : Legionnaire ; by Peter MacDonald ( USA )
1998 : Hideous Kinky ; by Gillies MacKinnon ( UK )
1998 : Hamilton ; by Harald Zwart (Sweden )
1999 : Cleopatra ; by Franc Roddam ( GERMANY – USA )
1999 : The Mummy ; by Stephen Sommers ( UK )
1999 : Jesus ; by Roger Young ( ITALY )
1999 : Zaya ; by Jonathan Paz ( ISRAEL )
1999 : The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax ; by Anthony Pullen Shaw ( USA )
1999 : Said ; by Llorenç Soler ( Spain )
1999 : Rendezvous in Samarkand ; by Tim Bridwell ( USA )
1999 : Egoz ; by Eli Cohen ( ISRAEL )
2000 : Anna (2000/III ; by Erik Wedersøe (Denmark )
2000 : San Paolo ; by Roger Young ( ITALY )
2000 : Deuxiéme vie ; by Patrick Braoudé ( FRENCH )
2000 : Kasbah ; Mariano Barroso (Argentina )
2000 : In the Beginning ; by Kevin Connor ( USA )
2000 : Gladiator ; by Ridley Scott ( USA )
2000 : Rules of Engagement ; by William Friedkin ( USA )
2001 ; Crociati ; By Dominique Othenin-Girard ( GERMANY )
2001 ; Clone, O ; by Mário Márcio Bandarra ( Brazil )
2001 : The Mummy Retu ; by Stefan Sommers ( UK )
2001 : Spy Games ; by Tony Scott ( USA )
2001 : Black Hawk Down ; by Ridley Scott ( USA )
2001 : Loin ; by André Téchiné ( FRENCH )
2001 : Un Aller Simple ; by Laurent Heynemann ( French )
2001 : Hamilton ; by Harald Zwart ( SWEDEN
2002 : Box 507 ; Enrique Urbizu ( Spain )
2002 : And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen ; by Claude Lelouch ( FRENCH )
2002 : The Four Feathers ; Shekhar Kapur ( UK – USA )
2002 : Sueurs ; by Louis-Pascal Couvelaire ( French )
2002 : La Repentie ; by Laetitia Masson ( French )
2002 : Anansi ; by Fritz Baumann ( GERMANY )
2002 : Napoléon ; by Yves Simoneau ( FRENCH )
2002 : El Alamein ; by Enzo Monteleone ( Italy )
2002 : Live From Baghdad ; by Mick Jackson ( USA )
2002 : Astérix-Obélix, Mission Cléopâtre ; by Alain Chabat ( FRANCH)
2002 : Sommer Hunde Sohne ; by Cyril Tuschi ( GERMANY )
2002 : Le Boulet ; by Alain Berbérian ( French )
2003 : Super Tex ; by Jan Schütte ( Germany )
2003 : Soraya ; by Lodovico Gasparini ( ITALY )
2004 : Judas ; Charles Robert Caer ( USA )
2004 : Timbuktu ; Alan Gilsenan ( Ireland )
2004 : Exorcist, The Beginnig ; by Renny Harlin ( USA )
2004 : Hidalgo ; by Joe Johnston ( USA )
2004 : Alexander ; by Oliver Stone ( UK, USA )
2004 : Stoned ; by Stephen Woolley ( UK )
2004 : The Grid ; by Mikael Salomon ( UK, USA )
2005 : L’anniversaire ; by Diane Kurys ( French )
2005 : C.R.A.Z.Y ; by Jean-Marc Vallée ( Canada )
2005 : The Walk ; by Mark Brozel ( UK )
2005 : The Govement Inspector ; by Peter Kosminsky ( UK )
2005 : Flores de perversion ; by Jesus Franco ( Spain )
2005 : Africa United ; by Olaf de Fleur Johannesson ( Iceland )
2005 : Syriana ; by Stephen Gaghan ( USA )
2005 : Kingdom of Heaven ; by Ridley Scott ( USA )
2005 : Sahara ; by Breck Eisner ( UK, USA )
2005 : Babel ; by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu ( USA )
2005 : The Hills Have Eyes ; by Alexandre Aja ( USA )
2005 : The Ten Commandment ; by Robert Dohelm ( USA )
2005 : Untitled History Project ; by David L. Cunningham ( USA )
2006 : The Hills Have Eyes, directed by Alexandre Aja ( USA )
2006 : Guide to the Perplexed
2006 : United 93
2006 : The Ten Commandments,(TV)
2006 : The Situation
2006 : Ride Around the World
2006 : The Nativity Story
2006 : Indigènes
2006 : Ich bin die Andere
2006 : Home of the Brave
2006 : Heaven's Doors
2006 : C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle
2006 : The 9/11 Commission Report
2006 : The Battle for Rome, (mini) TV Series
2007 : Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs
2007 : Real Premonition
2007 : Last Minute Marocco
2007 : In the Valley of Elah
2007 : Fata Morgana
2007 : L'Ennemi intime
2007 : Dangerous Parking
2007 : Chicken mexicaine
2007 : Charlie Wilson's War
2007 : Arn - Tempelriddaren
2007 : Les Anges de Satan
2007 : The Hills Have Eyes 2 directed by Martin Weisz ( USA )
2007 : The Bourne Ultimatum directed by Paul Greengrass ( USA )
2008 : Red Sands
2008 : Prisoners of the Sun
2008 : Plastic Planet
2008 : The Objective
2008 : Next to Babilonia
2008 : Kandisha
2008 : Kandahar
2008 : Greatest Journey
2008 : Dunya & Desie
2008 : Dirty Hands
2008 : The Crimson House
2008 : Brideshead Revisited
2008 : Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies
2008 : Blackline: The Beirut Contract
2008 : Arn - Riket vid vägens slut
2008 : After Iraq (V)
2008 : The Camel Wars
2008 : Body of Lies directed by Ridley Scott ( USA )
2009 : Baghdad 4.13 p.m.
2009 : Pope Joan
2009 : Lippels Traum
2009 : House of Boys
2009 : Green Zone
2009 : Fräulein Stinnes fährt um die Welt
2010 : Memoirs of Hadrian
2010 : Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time