Słowo kluczowe Maghreb

Ali La Pointe (Brahim Haggiag) jest drobnym złodziejaszkiem na przedmieściach Algieru. Jego życie zmienia się, gdy zostaje zwerbowany przez Front Wyzwolenia Narodowego (FLN). Ugrupowanie to ma na celu wyparcie kolonialnych wojsk francuskich z Algierii. Ali szybko pnie się w hierarchii FLN, by w końcu zostać jednym z jej liderów. Staje się tym samym obiektem zainteresowania pułkownika Mathieu (Jean Martin), który ma za zadanie rozbicie tajnej organizacji.

Rok 1516. Algier jest pod władzą Hiszpanów. Pewnego dnia jednak korsarz Aroudj Barbarossa (Dali Benssalah) wyzwala miasto i przejmuje tam władzę. Zawiera sojusz z królem Salimem Toumi (Mohamed Tahar Zaoui), który wkrótce umiera w niejasnych okolicznościach. O zabicie władcy mimo przymierza podejrzewany jest sam Barbarossa. Plotki szybko się rozprzestrzeniają. Odważna wdowa po monarsze, królowa Zephira (Adila Bendimerad), postanawia skonfrontować się z korsarzem.

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.