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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

2011 · Film · United Kingdom, France · Directed by Lasse Hallström

Egyptian-style film sets behind the walls of Atlas Studios in Ouarzazate
Filmed here: Ouarzazate · Photo: Yair Haklai, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Where in Morocco

  • Ouarzazate: Wikipedia's filming-location category
  • High Atlas: Scenes set in Yemen were filmed in Ouarzazate in the Moroccan Atlas Mountains. Wikipedia

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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is a 2011 British romantic comedy drama film directed by Lasse Hallström. The film stars Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas and Amr Waked. Based on the 2007 novel by Paul Torday, and a screenplay by Simon Beaufoy, the film is about a fisheries expert who is recruited by a consultant to help realise a sheikh's vision of bringing the sport of fly fishing to the Yemen desert, initiating an upstream journey of faith to make the impossible possible.

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Sources, checked 2026-11-15
  1. Arabic Wikipedia, filming-location category
  2. Arabic Wikipedia, filming-location category
  3. Wikipedia: Category:Films shot in Ouarzazate
  4. French Wikipedia, filming-location category
  5. Wikidata, filming location (P915)

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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves1954 · Taroudant, Ouarzazate, AgadirThe Man Who Knew Too Much1956 · Ouarzazate, MarrakechLawrence of Arabia1962 · Ouarzazate, Aït BenhaddouSodom and Gomorrah1962 · Marrakech, OuarzazateGreed in the Sun1964 · Ouarzazate, MarrakechOedipus Rex1967 · Ouarzazate, Aït Benhaddou, ZagoraThe Man Who Would Be King1975 · Ouarzazate, Aït BenhaddouBanzaï1983 · OuarzazateThe film mapEvery title shot in Morocco, with filtersVisiting the film setsA route to Ouarzazate, Aït Benhaddou, Essaouira and Tangier

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