Release Date

06 Feb, 2023

Runtime

01:49: (HH:MM)

Total Episode/Season

6/1

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Raï Is Not Dead

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Season 1

06 Feb, 2023

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.

Created By

Hadj Sameer

Simon Maisonobe

Grégoire Belhoste

Actors

Hadj Sameer

Cheb Khaled

Cheb Hasni

Rachid Baba Ahmed

Cheikha Remitti

Boutaïba Seghir

Cheb Mami

Lotfi Attar

Chaba Fadela

Messaoud Bellemou

Cheb Sahraoui

Rachid Taha

Cheb Bello

Faudel

Safy Boutella

Cheb Hamid

Mohamed Lamouri

Belkacem Bouteldja

Mokhtar Bachiri

Sofiane Saïdi

Nordine Staïfi

Crew

Simon Maisonobe

Simon Maisonobe

Hadj Sameer

Grégoire Belhoste