The Revolution Of El Harrachi
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2014-11-12
Runtime: 76 mins
Director: Mourad Ouabbas, Farah Alame
Writer: Mourad Ouabbas, Farah Alame
Spoken language: العربية, Français
Genres: Documentary, Music
Original title: The Revolution Of El Harrachi
Production Companies: Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, Radiodiffusion Télévision Algérienne (RTA), Darkside Film & TV Production, Canal Coquelicot
Production Countries: Algeria, France, Lebanon, Qatar
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