Yasmina (1961)
• January 1st, 1961 • 0h 15min
Drama
Overview
"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.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Hotel Rwanda
Released on: 2004-12-22
Drama, History, War
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsi...
Coffee Pot
Released on: 2019-10-15
Drama
Jomu’a is a Palestinian who lives in a refugee camp. Every early morning, he goes to the entrance of...
The Sun Never Sets
Released on: 1939-05-31
Drama
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home fr...
Charlie Wilson's War
Released on: 2007-12-19
Comedy, Drama, History
The true story of Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his effor...
The Seventh Door
Released on: 1947-09-27
Drama, Fantasy
An old man about to die gives all his fortune to a young beggar he meets in an Arabian town. He take...
The Day After
Released on: 1983-11-20
Science Fiction, Drama, TV Movie
In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residen...
Bloody Beans
Released on: 2013-11-24
Drama
On an Algerian beach, kids splash about, sleep, squabble - and then suddenly go to war. And it’s nei...
A Captain's Honor
Released on: 1982-12-29
Drama, History, War
During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the met...
Indochine
Released on: 1992-04-15
Drama, Romance
Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a F...
Down on the Sidewalk in Waikiki
Released on: 2019-03-23
Drama
In between growing frustrations toward cleaning up after an endless parade of tourists and reflectio...
The Sandman
Released on: 1932-01-15
Drama
Lieutenant Varnière, responsible for discovering the cause of the death of two officers in Algeria, ...
Desert of Lies
Released on: 1984-03-13
Drama, TV Movie
The fortunes of two expeditions a century and a half apart become mysteriously linked in the same de...
Sounds of Sand
Released on: 2007-05-02
Drama, War
On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of wat...
Live and Become
Released on: 2005-03-30
Drama
In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Is...
Papillon
Released on: 1973-12-16
Crime, Drama
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful pris...
Cléo from 5 to 7
Released on: 1962-04-11
Drama
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Released on: 2006-06-23
Drama, War
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital...
Heart of the Casbah
Released on: 1952-01-24
Drama, Romance, Crime
Maria-Pilar is the new wife of an Algerian gangster whom the police have just arrested. The son of a...
The Four Feathers
Released on: 2002-09-08
Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Su...