Yasmina
"Yasmina" filmed in 1961 in the middle of the Algerian war tells the story of a little Algerian girl with her hen and her family whose father was killed in a bombing by the French colonial army of occupation. The family, after a long journey, heads towards the refugee camps on the Tunisian border. Produced by the Cinema Service of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (GPRA) in the midst of the war of independence, these films were intended to re-inform the population and international public opinion on the abuses committed by the French colonial army: torture, arrests and arbitrary executions, napalm bombings, fires in douars, entire villages wiped off the map, etc. which the French media described as a "pacification" campaign. The latter censoring or reorienting any images that could harm the colonial narrative.
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Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina Director · Djamel-Eddine Chanderli Director
First release January 1, 1961 · Produced in Algeria
Production
Gouvernement Provisoire de la République Algérienne (GPRA)
Production
Algeria
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Original language
Arabic
Spoken on screen
Arabic
Release dates
Algeria · January 1, 1961
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