JAMILAH (1958) | [aka... جميله بوحريد - Jamila  - Jamileh al-Jazairiyya]

Written by:

Abdel Rahman Sharqawi

Naguib Mahfouz

Ali El Zourkani

Produced by:
Magda

Cinematography by:
Abdel Aziz Fahmy

Editing by:
Mohamed Abbass

Original Music by:

Fouad Al Zahri

Genre:
Drama/Political/Algeria

Production Company:
Magda Films

  Until now she had been a simple spectator in the struggle between nationalists and French paratroopers in Algiers. But when one of her girl friends is arrested, Djamila Bouhired, a high school student, decides to join the F.L.N. (National Liberation Front). Djamila is caught by "Bigeard", a French officer heading operations against the F.L.N. network implanted among the population. She is tortured but refuses to talk. When public opinion is roused, the French lawyer Vergès comes to take her defense in a trial that is a travesty of justice. The dramatic story of the Algerian resistance of the French occupation.

Ahmed Mazhar
Salah Zulfikar
Rushdy Abaza
Magda
Zahret El Ola
Mahmoud El Milgi
Hussein Riad

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 Egypt - 120 min - 35MM - Black & white -  mono

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