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Ahmed Rachedi (Arabic: أحمد راشدي), born in 1938 in Tébessa, is an Algerian filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and ministerial advisor.
The war of independence is his school: Ahmed Rachedi belongs, with René Vautier and Mohamed Chanderli, to the first cinematographic unit of the FLN. He went to Tunis where his work focused on reporting, editing, as well as short films (he made several after independence). He participates in collective films and directs some of them. In 1962 he was one of the founding members, with the same René Vautier, of the CAV audiovisual center.
He became known with "The Dawn of the Damned" (1965) and "The Opium and the Stick" (1971), adapted from the eponymous novel published in 1965 by Mouloud Mammeri, and presented at the directors' fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. . In France, based on a screenplay by Rachid Boudjedra, he directed a story about emigrant workers, Le Doigt dans l'entreprises. In 1970, while he directed the National Office for Commerce and the Cinematographic Industry (ONCIC) from its creation and until 1971, he took part in the production of the famous film "Z" by director Costa Gavras which won the Oscar for best foreign language film for Algeria.
Ahmed Rachedi becomes an independent producer. In 1986 he filmed a political comedy, Le Moulin de monsieur Fabre, a film starring Jacques Dufilho. In 1990, he adapted Amin Maalouf's novel Léon l'Africain for cinema and television. In 1993, his TV film C'tait La Guerre, co-directed with Maurice Falevic, won the FIPA d'or prize.
Since 2009 he has devoted himself completely to historical films by directing several biopics dedicated to the life and journey of figures from the war of national liberation. He released the feature film "Mostefa Ben Boulaïd" in 2009 which will be followed in 2015 by "Krim Belkacem", a historical film on the journey of this figure of the revolution, and "Lotfi", dedicated to the journey of Colonel Lotfi.
In 2018 he released his latest film "Les Sept Remparts De La Citadelle", adapted from the eponymous novel written by Mohamed Maarfia.
In 2021, Ahmed Rachedi was appointed to the position of Advisor to the President of the Algerian Republic, responsible for culture and audiovisual.
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30 March 2015
The film relates the career of Colonel Lotfi, whose real name is Benali Boudghene, since his beginnings as an activist in Tlemcen where, with his classmates from high school, he posted the call of 1 November 1954, addressed by National Liberation Front (FLN) to the Algerian people.
26 February 1969
A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth, but a tenacious magistrate is determined to not to let them get away with it.
01 January 1978
Documentary tribute to the Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez produced in 1977 consisting of archive images of the singer during his visit to Paris in September 1974, joined by fictional scenes which take the form of a journalistic investigation.
01 January 2018
The feature film “The seven ramparts of the citadel”, a fiction recounting the conflict between an Algerian family expropriated from its land and a bloodthirsty settler; by director Ahmed Rachedi.
26 August 1972
Set shortly before and during the Six Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman.
02 January 1963
In 1962, René Vautier, together with some Algerian friends, organised the audio-visual formation centre Ben Aknoun to encourage a "dialogue in images" between the two factions.
02 January 1971
During French colonization, a young Algerian boy is expelled from the French high school where he is able to study thanks to his father's position in the village.
17 December 1980
Ali, an Algerian crane operator, takes with philosophy the bullying suffered by immigrants like him. His existence changes radically the day he wins the lottery.
02 January 1993
Ali, a young Algerian who carried out an attack in Algiers, hastily leaves the city to join the resistance.
02 January 1972
Collectively made Algerian film.
21 January 2003
The autobiographical account of the tormented life of a witness of the century: Louisa Ighilahriz, activist and leading figure in Algerian independence.
01 November 2014
This film retraces the combat journey of Krim Belkacem, one of the leading figures of the Algerian War.
14 September 1970
In 1950, in Algeria, in a village in Kabylia, Algerian resistance fighters resisted the French occupation army.
10 August 2006
L'Aile Noire" is a gripping Algerian drama set during the Algerian War of Independence. Directed by Ahmed Rachedi, the film delves into the lives of Algerian resistance fighters as they struggle against French colonial forces in their quest for freedom.
01 December 2008
The film revolves around the life of the martyr Mustapha Ben Bouleid (1917-1956), who was a member of the Algerian National Movement, who worked with his comrades to explain the idea of the armed revolution in which he led in Aures region in 1954.
19 January 1983
The story of the post-independence nationalization of the mill of Monsieur Fabre, an old man attached to the land of Algeria where he was born.
01 December 2004
Raï Story is a musical journey in search of the Raï legend, Cheikha Remitti, in Oran, Algeria, where the Raï musical tradition began.
02 January 1975
In the streets of the Casbah of Algiers, an FLN fighter pursued by the colonial police hands over confidential documents to Mourad, an Algerian child shouting newspapers who must at all costs pass them on to the resistance.
02 January 1972
The story of a young Palestinian who left his refugee camp to become a resistance fighter in the Palestine Liberation Organization.
05 July 1965
This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is a film about death.
02 January 1974
The film mixes fiction, filmed documents and interviews which recounts the arrival in Paris of an Algerian immigrant lost in the metro.
