Ahmed Rachedi

Ahmed Rachedi was born in 1938 in Tébessa. During the war of liberation, he belonged, with René Vautier and Mohamed Chanderli, to the first film unit of the independence movement, and learned reportage and editing in Tunisia. He headed the public body for Algerian cinema from 1967 to the end of 1972, then became an independent producer in Rome. He took part in the founding of the Pan-African Federation of Filmmakers and devoted the end of his career to historical films about the figures of the war of liberation, before becoming adviser to the Algerian president for culture and the audiovisual sector.

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• CinemaThe Opium and the StickL'Opium et le BâtonAhmed Rachedi · 1971Cinema