Jamila, the Algerian
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- Runtime
- 123 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Magda Al Sabahi
- Ahmed Mazhar
- Salah Zulfikar
- Rushdy Abaza
- Zahrat El-Ola
- Kariman
- Farida Fahmy
- Mahmoud El Meligy
- Fakher Fakher
- Salah Nazmi
- Fattoh Nashaty
- Adly Kasseb
- Abdel Ghani Qamar
- Said Khalil
- Ahmed Loxer
- Ahmed Abaza
- Mohamed Hamdy
- Mohamed Abaza
- Tahani Rashed
- Nadia Al Gendy
- Abbas El Daly
- Abdel Azim Kamel
- Shafiq Nour ElDein
- Motawie Eweiss
- Hussein Reyaad
- Soliman ElGendy
- Sherine
- Abdel Aziz Ghonaim
- Aziz Nasser
- Weza
- Tousoun Motamad
- Gamil Ezz ElDein
Director
- Youssef Chahine
Producers
- Magda Al Sabahi
Screenwriter
- Naguib Mahfouz
- Abd El Rahman El Sharqawy
- Wagih Naguib
