Jamila, the Algerian (1958)
Genre : Drama, History, War
Runtime : 2H 3M
Director : Youssef Chahine
Writer : Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi, Ali El-Zarqani, Naguib Mahfouz, Wagih Nagib
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.
