Jamila, the Algerian

Jamila, the Algerian

6.5

Arabic/123 min./1958

Genres

Drama History War

Synopsis

Jamila, an Algerian girl who loves her homeland, joins the nationalist movement to liberate her country from French occupation. Based on the life of Djamila Bouhired, who was arrested and tortured by the French Algerian government, Chahine's first explicitly political film managed to galvanize wide solidarity with the Algerian resistance from across the Arab World, starting in Egypt.

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