Jamila the Algerian

Movie
Audience Score
58
Jamila the Algerian
NR 2 hr 3 minWar, Drama, History
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 Chahines first explicitly political film managed to galvanize wide solidarity with the Algerian resistance from across the Arab World starting in Egypt
WriterYoussef El Sebai