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Raï Is Not Dead
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Title: Raï Is Not Dead

Release Date: 6 Feb 2023

Runtime: 1h 49m

Genre: Documentary

Director: Simon Maisonobe,Grégoire Belhoste,Hadj Sameer

Production Companies: ARTE, ZED

Overview: 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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Cast

  • Self (Host): Hadj Sameer
  • Self: Cheb Khaled
  • Self (archive footage): Cheb Hasni
  • Self (archive footage): Rachid Baba Ahmed
  • Self (archive footage): Cheikha Remitti
  • Self: Boutaïba Seghir
  • Self (archive footage): Cheb Mami
  • Self: Lotfi Attar
  • Self: Chaba Fadela
  • Self: Messaoud Bellemou
  • Self: Cheb Sahraoui
  • Self (archive footage): Rachid Taha
  • Self: Cheb Bello
  • Self (archive footage): Faudel
  • Self: Safy Boutella
  • Self: Cheb Hamid
  • Self: Mohamed Lamouri
  • Self: Belkacem Bouteldja
  • Self: Mokhtar Bachiri
  • Self: Sofiane Saïdi
  • Self: Nordine Staïfi
  • Self: Rabah El Maghnaoui
  • Self: Cheb Bilal
  • Self: Cheb Anouar
  • Raï Is Not Dead (Season 1)

    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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