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Mohamed Essaghir Aabach

  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
  • Casting Department
  • Additional Crew
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Mohamed Essaghir Aabach is known for Inception (2010), Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) and Hanna (2011).
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    Known for

    Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Berenger, Michael Caine, Lukas Haas, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hardy, Elliot Page, Ken Watanabe, and Dileep Rao in Inception (2010)
    Inception
    8.8
    • Second Unit or Assistant Director(Morocco)
    • 2010
    Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
    Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
    6.1
    • Second Unit or Assistant Director(morocco)
    • 2024
    Antonio Banderas, Harrison Ford, Mads Mikkelsen, Ethann Isidore, Boyd Holbrook, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and Shaunette Renée Wilson in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
    Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
    6.5
    • Second Unit or Assistant Director(Morocco)
    • 2023
    Saoirse Ronan in Hanna (2011)
    Hanna
    6.7
    • Second Unit or Assistant Director(Morocco)
    • 2011

    Credits

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    Second Unit or Assistant Director

    • Il nibbio
      • second second assistant director
      • Post-production
      • 2025
    • Rule Breakers
      • third assistant director
      • Completed
      • 2025
    • Dirty Angels (2024)
      Dirty Angels
      4.3
      • third assistant director: Morocco
      • 2024
    • Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
      Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
      6.1
      • second second assistant director: morocco
      • 2024
    • A Moroccan Affair (2023)
      A Moroccan Affair
      4.9
      • third assistant director: Morocco (as Mohamed Aabach Essaghir)
      • 2023
    • Muscat (2023)
      Muscat
      7.7
      Short
      • second assistant director
      • 2023
    • Ransomed (2023)
      Ransomed
      6.6
      • third assistant director: Morocco
      • 2023
    • Antonio Banderas, Harrison Ford, Mads Mikkelsen, Ethann Isidore, Boyd Holbrook, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and Shaunette Renée Wilson in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
      Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
      6.5
      • third assistant director: Morocco
      • 2023
    • Penélope Cruz, Diane Kruger, Bingbing Fan, Jessica Chastain, and Lupita Nyong'o in The 355 (2022)
      The 355
      5.6
      • third assistant director: Morocco
      • 2022
    • Johnny Depp, Mark Rylance, and Robert Pattinson in Waiting for the Barbarians (2019)
      Waiting for the Barbarians
      5.9
      • third assistant director: Morocco
      • 2019
    • Claire Danes in Homeland (2011)
      Homeland
      8.3
      TV Series
      • second second assistant director: Morocco
      • second second assistant director: morocco
      • 2013–2017
    • White City (2015)
      White City
      4.6
      TV Movie
      • third assistant director: morocco
      • 2015
    • Rock the Casbah (2013)
      Rock the Casbah
      6.5
      • second second assistant director
      • 2013
    • Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011)
      Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
      6.8
      • third assistant director: Morrocco
      • 2011
    • Saoirse Ronan in Hanna (2011)
      Hanna
      6.7
      • third assistant director: Morocco
      • 2011
    • Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Berenger, Michael Caine, Lukas Haas, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hardy, Elliot Page, Ken Watanabe, and Dileep Rao in Inception (2010)
      Inception
      8.8
      • third assistant director: Morocco
      • 2010
    • Kim Cattrall, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon in Sex and the City 2 (2010)
      Sex and the City 2
      4.5
      • third assistant director: Morocco
      • 2010

    Casting Department

    • Sacha Baron Cohen in The Spy (2019)
      The Spy
      7.9
      TV Mini Series
      • casting assistant
      • 2019
    • The Objective (2008)
      The Objective
      5.4
      • casting assistant
      • 2008
    • Joakim Nätterqvist in Arn: The Knight Templar (2007)
      Arn: The Knight Templar
      6.6
      • casting assistant (uncredited)
      • 2007
    • The Nativity Story (2006)
      The Nativity Story
      6.8
      • casting assistant
      • 2006
    • The Path to 9/11 (2006)
      The Path to 9/11
      6.5
      TV Mini Series
      • casting assistant
      • 2006
    • The Ten Commandments (2006)
      The Ten Commandments
      5.3
      TV Mini Series
      • casting assistant
      • 2006
    • Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn, and Penélope Cruz in Sahara (2005)
      Sahara
      6.1
      • casting assistant (uncredited)
      • 2005
    • Viggo Mortensen in Hidalgo (2004)
      Hidalgo
      6.7
      • casting assistant
      • 2004

    Additional Crew

    • Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn, and Penélope Cruz in Sahara (2005)
      Sahara
      6.1
      • crowd marshall (as Mohamed Abach)
      • 2005
    • Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)
      Exorcist: The Beginning
      5.1
      • crowd marshall (uncredited)
      • 2004
    • Wes Bentley, Kate Hudson, and Heath Ledger in The Four Feathers (2002)
      The Four Feathers
      6.5
      • crowd marshall
      • 2002
    • Josh Hartnett in Black Hawk Down (2001)
      Black Hawk Down
      7.7
      • crowd marshall: Morocco
      • 2001
    • In the Beginning (2000)
      In the Beginning
      6.3
      TV Mini Series
      • crowd marshall
      • 2000
    • Kasbah (2000)
      Kasbah
      5.8
      • crowd marshall
      • 2000

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      • Mohamed Aabach

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