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Jamila, the Algerian
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.
| Release : | 1958 |
| Rating : | 7.1 |
| Studio : | Magda Films, |
| Crew : | Director of Photography, Scenic Artist, |
| Cast : | Magda Al Sabahi Ahmed Mazhar Salah Zulfiqar Rushdy Abaza Zahrat El-Ola |
| Genre : | Drama History War |
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The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
