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Raï Is Not Dead
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Raï Is Not Dead

2023-02-06 · 109 min / episode · ★ 10.0

Documentary

What musical genre can claim to have gone, in the space of fifty years, from a hidden cabaret in Oran to Super Bowl halftime? Born in Algeria at the end of the Second World War, the raï wave spread from the cabarets of western Algeria to the cassette shops of Barbès in Paris, before sweeping the world at the end of the 1980s. its hybridization, the intoxicating music traveled from Algerian and French weddings to the biggest international stages, before suddenly disappearing from the radar at the dawn of the new millennium. Icons that have disappeared, including Cheikha Remitti and Prince Hasni, to young heirs, passing by the star Khaled, the collector Hadj Sameer trace the tumultuous course of this musical genre, between clandestinity, planetary glory and resistance.

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Creators
Hadj Sameer, Simon Maisonobe, Grégoire Belhoste
Production companies
ARTE, ZED
Countries
France
Status
Ended

Top Cast

Hadj SameerHadj SameerSelf (Host)
Cheb KhaledCheb KhaledSelf
Cheb HasniCheb HasniSelf (archive footage)
Rachid Baba AhmedRachid Baba AhmedSelf (archive footage)
Cheikha RemittiCheikha RemittiSelf (archive footage)
Boutaïba SeghirBoutaïba SeghirSelf
Cheb MamiCheb MamiSelf (archive footage)
Lotfi AttarLotfi AttarSelf
Chaba FadelaChaba FadelaSelf
Messaoud BellemouMessaoud BellemouSelf
Cheb SahraouiCheb SahraouiSelf
Rachid TahaRachid TahaSelf (archive footage)
Cheb BelloCheb BelloSelf
FaudelFaudelSelf (archive footage)
Safy BoutellaSafy BoutellaSelf
Cheb HamidSelf
Mohamed LamouriSelf
Belkacem BouteldjaSelf
Mokhtar BachiriSelf
Sofiane SaïdiSofiane SaïdiSelf

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