Directing

Hadj Rahim

Born — Died

1934-01-01 — 2017-01-13

Place of birth

Algiers, Algeria

Known for

Directing

Credits

6 titles

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Hadj Rahim (الحاج رحيم), born in 1934, was the director of the first Algerian invisible camera in 1970. At that time, the director, with few technical and material means of today, had only succeeded thanks to his creativity, his know-how and his love of the profession. Hadj Rahim, who first had to come up with the idea of trapping people, was not only behind the camera but also in front where he often played the role of the trapper, that is to say he also had a real gift of actor. The young Hadj Rahim left Algiers for a while for Paris, in the mid-1950s, where he discovered television through extras and radio where he was a manager. It was also in Paris where he encountered the commitment t…

Known for

Khouth Ma Aâtak Allah (عرس الدايم, خود ما اعطاك الله) poster

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Khouth Ma Aâtak Allah (عرس الدايم, خود ما اعطاك الله)

1981

10.0

In 1982, Hadj Rahim directed "Serkadji", a fiction film about the men's quarters of the Barberousse military prison in Algiers, where hundreds of FLN fighters were incarcerated and executed during the war of independence. Algeria between 1954 and 1962.

Serkadji

1982

In a house in the heart of the Casbah of Algiers, a family is torn apart by the weight of war. Three divided brothers, caught up in the contradictions of a country in struggle, gradually unite around a single cause: the liberation of Algeria. Ibna El Casbah is a tense, emotionally-charged behind-closed-doors story that captures the moment when intimacy becomes history.