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The Revolution Of El Harrachi

20141h 16m10.0

Documentary, Music

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Runtime: 1h 16m
Genre: Documentary
Origin: Algeria

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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.

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Director: Mourad Ouabbas, Farah Alame
Writing: Mourad Ouabbas, Farah Alame
Status: Released
Released: Nov 12, 2014
Studio: Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, Radiodiffusion Télévision Algérienne (RTA)

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