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Filmmaker · Algeria

Djamel Chanderli

Died in 1990

Djamel-Eddine Chanderli was born in 1920 in Annaba. Settled in Paris, he made his way to Tunis and then to Algeria at war, joined the maquis in 1956 and is regarded as the first Algerian to film the struggle from inside the country. In 1957 he joined the film service set up within the army of liberation, then filmed the refugees on the borders. After independence, he was one of the heads of the Algerian newsreel office, ran the audiovisual department of Sonatrach from 1969, then that of the Algerian Cultural Centre in Paris, where he died on 10 November 1990.

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