

06/02/2023
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.

Hadj Sameer
as Self (Host)

Cheb Khaled
as Self

Cheb Hasni
as Self (archive footage)

Rachid Baba Ahmed
as Self (archive footage)

Cheikha Remitti
as Self (archive footage)

Boutaïba Seghir
as Self

Cheb Mami
as Self (archive footage)

Lotfi Attar
as Self

Chaba Fadela
as Self

Messaoud Bellemou
as Self

Cheb Sahraoui
as Self

Rachid Taha
as Self (archive footage)

Cheb Bello
as Self

Faudel
as Self (archive footage)

Safy Boutella
as Self

Cheb Hamid
as Self

Mohamed Lamouri
as Self

Belkacem Bouteldja
as Self

Mokhtar Bachiri
as Self

Sofiane Saïdi
as Self

Nordine Staïfi
as Self

Rabah El Maghnaoui
as Self

Cheb Bilal
as Self

Cheb Anouar
as Self
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