The Revolution Of El Harrachi
2014 • Documentary | Music
Mourad Ouabbas
Director
Mourad Ouabbas
Writer
Farah Alame
Director
Farah Alame
Writer
Status
Released
Release date
November 12, 2014
Duration
76 Min
Language
ar
Popularity
0.468
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Overview
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