The Second Wife

Oct 14, 1967

1h 52m

★ 6.9

Overview

A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.

Genres

Drama

Thriller

Production Companies

أفلام رمسيس نجيب

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Cast

Fatma فاطمة

Soad Hosny

Abu el Ela أبو العلا

Shoukry Sarhan

Hafiza حفيظة

Sanaa Gamil

Mayor Etman عتمان- العمدة

Salah Mansour

Hassan حسان الخفير

Abdel Moneim Ibrahim

Sister زوجة أخو العمدة

Soheir El Morshedy

شيخ البلد

Hassan El Baroudy

Nazima نظيمه الدايه

Naima ElSoghier

شقيق العمدة

Mohamed Noah

Abdel Ghani El Nagdi

المأمور

Ibrahim ElShamy

المقدس متى

Eskandar Mansy

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 injustice, tyranny and cruelty on his compatriots by French soldiers. Jamila's nationalist spirit will be strengthened when French forces invade her university to arrest her classmate Amina who commits suicide by ingesting poison. Shortly after the prominent Algerian guerrilla leader Youssef takes refuge with her, she realizes that her uncle Mustafa is part of this network of anti-colonial rebel fighters. Her uncle linked 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...

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