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The Revolution Of El Harrachi (2014)
Directed by Mourad Ouabbas, Farah Alame
Documentary, Music · 1h 16m
The artistic journey of Dahmane El Harrachi, born in 1925 in Algiers, bears the mark of his experience. An attentive and vigilant observer of the environment of immigrant workers, Dahmane has always avoided falling into the ambient miserabilism. From the Algerian Chaâbi, he has kept certain melodic lines and a clear propensity for sayings drawn from the oral poetic tradition. El Harrachi uses simple language, understandable by all popular sectors of the Maghreb, which partly explains its wide success. In 1949, he went to France and it was in cafes, springboard places where people come to breathe the air of the country, that he performed regularly. Elegant, with his beautiful atmosphere, the “bluesman” of the suburbs seduces, upsets and stirs consciences. Discovered late by the new generation, the creator of Ya Rayah met a tragic end, on August 31, 1980, in a car accident, on the Algiers coast which he sublimated above all else.
Cast
Dahmane El Harrachi
Kamel El Harrachi
Cheb Khaled
Kamel Hamadi
Cheikh Namous
Mahdi Berrached
Crew
- Director
- Mourad Ouabbas, Farah Alame
- Writer
- Mourad Ouabbas, Farah Alame
Details
- Original title
- Thaourate El Harrachi - الثورة من الحراشي
- Release date
- 2014-11-12
- Runtime
- 1h 16m
- Genres
- Documentary, Music
- Original language
- AR
- Spoken languages
- Arabic, French
- Countries
- Algeria, France, Lebanon, Qatar
- Production
- Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, Radiodiffusion Télévision Algérienne (RTA), Darkside Film & TV Production, Canal Coquelicot