Tamilla

Tamilla (1927)

Drama

Algeria, run by the French administration. Tamilla is a cheerful girl whose father, a respected member of the Méziane community of Kabylians, is looking for a favorable marriage. Mezian promises his daughter to the old merchant Lakhrash. This does not prevent him from selling Tamilla almost immediately for the second time, this time to a young handsome man named Akli, with whom the girl experiences short-term happiness. But later, Akli thinks about another wife. At the same time, Meziane is scheming to lure more money from Akli and pay off Lakhrash. Having already given birth to a child with Akli, Tamilla finally falls into Lakhrash's hands. Everything ends in tragedy, and Tamilla is imprisoned by an unjust sentence of French judges who are insensitive to Berber problems. Although Tamilla will be released, she is already "damaged goods". The film premiered in Turkey 92 years later with a special screening at the 56th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival.

Director: Muhsin Ertuğrul

Casts

	Anna Zarzhitskaya as Tamilla
	Mykola Kuchynskyi as Mezian, Tamilla's father
	Matvei Lyarov as Lahrash, merchant
	Ivan Kapralov as Officer
	Tatiana Tarnovskaya as Fatima
	O. Nazarova as Lakri, Mezian's wife
	Borys Shelestov as Marabu, dervish
	Osyp Merlatti as Bandit
	Mikhail Smolenskiy as Attorney
	Silenchuk as Leila

Crew