(Thaourate El Harrachi - الثورة من الحراشي)

Content: 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.

Countries:

Algeria,

France,

Lebanon,

Qatar

Genres:

Documentary,

Music

Runtime:

76 minutes

Year:

2014

Directors:

Mourad Ouabbas

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Production companies:

Al Jazeera Documentary Channel,

Radiodiffusion Télévision Algérienne (RTA),

Darkside Film & TV Production,

Canal Coquelicot

Actors:

Self (archive footage)

Self

Self

Self

Self

Crews:

Director

Writer

Director

Writer