Hadj Rahim

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 to independence among Algerian emigration. Back in Algiers at the beginning of the 1970s, we find him in particular in the credits of Vacation of Inspector Tahar by Moussa Haddad, for which Hadj Rahim was the assistant. The film, which is among the greatest public successes of Algerian cinematography...