Abdel Raouf Dafri
Abdel Raouf Dafri (born 13 August 1964 in Marseille and raised near Lille) is a César Award winning French film and television scriptwriter. Born in a family of Algerian descent and created his first television series La Commune which was aired in 2007 on French television. Source: Article "Abdel Raouf Dafri" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Created Shows
La Commune
8 Episode s . The Commune is a difficult district which holds all the records in terms of unemployment, drug trafficking and crime. After 20 years in prison, the charismatic Muslim leader Isham Amadi decides to return to his home neighborhood where he finds his childhood friend, now the local boss, Housmane Daoud. The inhabitants of the Commune have just learned that the dilapidated buildings in which they reside will be razed to make room for new housing. Suspecting a maneuver by the authorities to cleanse the city of its most "harmful" elements, some residents, gathered around Amadi, organize resistance. But behind this politico-media confrontation looms a latent and murderous turf war: the one between the two enemy brothers Daoud and Amadi, linked by a twenty-year-old crime ...
La Commune
8 Episode s . The Commune is a difficult district which holds all the records in terms of unemployment, drug trafficking and crime. After 20 years in prison, the charismatic Muslim leader Isham Amadi decides to return to his home neighborhood where he finds his childhood friend, now the local boss, Housmane Daoud. The inhabitants of the Commune have just learned that the dilapidated buildings in which they reside will be razed to make room for new housing. Suspecting a maneuver by the authorities to cleanse the city of its most "harmful" elements, some residents, gathered around Amadi, organize resistance. But behind this politico-media confrontation looms a latent and murderous turf war: the one between the two enemy brothers Daoud and Amadi, linked by a twenty-year-old crime ...
Algiers Confidential
4 Episode s . When two of his countrymen - arms dealers - are kidnapped, a German police investigator is sent to Algiers in search of them. Beginning a steamy affair with an Algerian prosecutor investigating the case for her country probably wasn't the best idea, but as the pair go deeper, they uncover a corruption scandal testing their loyalty to their nations and to each other.
Algiers Confidential
4 Episode s . When two of his countrymen - arms dealers - are kidnapped, a German police investigator is sent to Algiers in search of them. Beginning a steamy affair with an Algerian prosecutor investigating the case for her country probably wasn't the best idea, but as the pair go deeper, they uncover a corruption scandal testing their loyalty to their nations and to each other.
A Prophet
8 Episode s . Set in present-day Marseille, the new series stars Mamadou Sidibé as Malik El Djebenna, a drug mule who is incarcerated at the infamous Baumettes prison. There he crosses paths with a man from a fairly bourgeois segment of the local French-Arab community, played by Sami Bouajila, who unexpectedly becomes his mentor.
A Prophet
8 Episode s . Set in present-day Marseille, the new series stars Mamadou Sidibé as Malik El Djebenna, a drug mule who is incarcerated at the infamous Baumettes prison. There he crosses paths with a man from a fairly bourgeois segment of the local French-Arab community, played by Sami Bouajila, who unexpectedly becomes his mentor.