Ahmed Rachedi (Arabic: أحمد راشدي), born in 1938 in Tébessa, is an Algerian filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and ministerial advisor. The war of independence is his school: Ahmed Rachedi belongs, with René Vautier and Mohamed Chanderli, to the first cinematographic unit of the FLN. He went to Tunis where his work focused on reporting, editing, as well as short films (he made several after independence). He participates in collective films and directs some of them. In 1962 he was one of the founding members, with the same René Vautier, of the CAV audiovisual center. He became known with "The Dawn of the Damned" (1965) and "The Opium and the Stick" (1971), adapted from the eponymous novel published in 1965 by Mouloud Mammeri, and presented at the directors' fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. . In France, based on a screenplay by Rach...read more