Many famous films were shot in Morocco

You have played Tibetans, ancient Egyptian slaves and IS fighters. Many blockbusters were filmed in the Moroccan city of Ouarzazate. This gave the residents extra roles. But because of digitization, fewer and fewer people are needed for crowd scenes.

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It is already late in the morning when Usama bin Ladin leaves his barren, dark one-room apartment. As always, dressed in a white robe and a military jacket and with a white cap on his head, he crossed the courtyard of the crumbling clay building and scattered a handful of grains for the birds. “If only I could fly like them,” he says with a big smile, and his calm, wrinkled face brightens. “At my age I can no longer hope for much from this world.”

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