Trefwoord Maghreb

In 1929 woedt de twintig-jarige oorlog tussen de Libische Bedoeïenen en Italiaanse koloniale bezetters nog in alle hevigheid. Drijvende kracht van de rebellen is de legendarische Omar Mukhtar, een leraar die zich verplicht zag revolutionair te worden omdat hij niet kan dulden dat zijn volk werd onderworpen aan een buitenlandse macht.

1957. Ali is een dief die zich aansluit bij het Front de libération nationale (FLN). Dit Nationaal Bevrijdingsfront strijdt voor een vrij Algerije, onafhankelijk van het Franse kolonialisme. De Franse overheersers nemen echter steeds drastischer maatregelen tegen het FLN, wat al snel een landelijke revolutie ontketent.

In 1939 in eastern Algeria, Omar, a young boy of ten, lives with his family in a room in Dar Sbitar, a house shared by several families who overcome the trials they go through every day to ensure their subsistence. Her deceased father is Aïni, the mother, who bleeds herself from all four veins to keep her children and their grandmother alive. The families of Dar Sbitar share their intimacy and their daily life, this life animates the big house, which itself becomes a character in its own right. "El Harik" (The Fire), is an Algerian drama series in 10 episodes adapted from Mohamed Dib's trilogy "The Big House", "The Fire" and "The Loom".

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.

Through the fictionalized lives of two young Saint-Simonians, this television film presents the history of French colonization in Algeria from 1837 to the end of the Second Empire.