Jamila, the Algerian

Jamila, the Algerian (1958)

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Djamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah district of Algiers under the French occupation of Algeria, sees the full extent of injustice, tyranny and cruelty on his compatriots by French soldiers. Jamila's nationalist spirit will be strengthened when French forces invade her university to arrest her classmate Amina who commits suicide by ingesting poison. Shortly after the prominent Algerian guerrilla leader Youssef takes refuge with her, she realizes that her uncle Mustafa is part of this network of anti-colonial rebel fighters. Her uncle linked her to the National Liberation Front (FLN). A series of events illustrate Jamila's participation in resistance operations against the occupier before she was finally captured and tortured. Finally, despite the efforts of her French lawyer, Jamila is sentenced to death...

Director: Youssef Chahine
Writers: Naguib Mahfouz, Abd El Rahman El Sharqawy, Wagih Naguib.

Casts

	Magda Al Sabahi as جميلة بو حريد
	Ahmed Mazhar as يوسف
	Salah Zulfikar as عزام
	Rushdy Abaza as بيجار
	Zahrat Al-Ola as بوعزة
	Kariman as حسيبة
	Farida Fahmy as سيمون
	Mahmoud El Meligy as المحامي الفرنسي جاك فيرجيس
	Fakher Fakher as مصطفى بوحيرد عم جميلة
	Salah Nazmi as
	Fattoh Nashaty as
	Adly Kasseb as قائد للمقاومة الجزائرية
	Abdel Ghani Qamar as
	Said Khalil as
	Ahmed Loxer as
	Ahmed Abaza as
	Mohamed Hamdy as
	Mohamed Abaza as
	Tahani Rashed as المجاهدة أمينة
	Nadia Al Gendy as المجاهدة علياء
	Abbas El Daly as جدو
	Abdel Azim Kamel as
	Shafiq Nour ElDein as بو حريد
	Motawie Eweiss as
	Hussein Reyaad as القاضي حبيب
	Soliman ElGendy as شقيق جميله
	Sherine as أمينه
	Abdel Aziz Ghonaim as موظف البريد زميل ابو عزة
	Aziz Nasser as
	Weza as
	Tousoun Motamad as عمر
	Gamil Ezz ElDein as

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