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Djamila the Algerian (جميلة, Djamilah) is an Egyptian historical film about one of the most important figures in Algerian history. Directed by Youssef Chahine and written by Abd al-Rahman, Ali al-Zarqani and Naguib Mahfouz, it was released in 1958. This film is not only considered to highlight the story of an important revolutionary woman, but also to show the struggle of the Algerian people against the French occupation.
It portrays the Algerian resistance fighter and fighter Djamila Bouhired.
Djamila the Algerian is the first and only audiovisual narrative to focus solely on the role of Algerian women in the Algerian War. The film was released only one year after the torture and arrest of Djamila Bouhired. Chahine's first explicitly political film, it succeeded in galvanizing broad solidarity with the Algerian resistance throughout the Arab world, starting with Egypt. Djamila the Algerian is among the Top 100 films in the history of Egyptian cinema.
Synopsis
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 the injustice, tyranny and cruelty on her compatriots by the French soldiers. Jamila's nationalist spirit will be strengthened when the French forces invade her university to arrest her classmate Amina who commits suicide by ingesting poison. Shortly after, the eminent Algerian guerrilla leader Youssef takes refuge in her home, she realizes that her uncle Mustafa is part of this network of anti-colonial rebel fighters. Her uncle attached 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...
Technical details
Title: Djamila l'Algérienne
Original title: جميلة, Djamilah
Director: Youssef Chahine
Country of origin: Egypt
Genre: Drama
Release date: 1958
Cast
Magda al-Sabahi (Djamila Bouhired), Salah Zulfikar, Ahmed Mazhar, Rushdy Abaza, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Hussein Riad
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