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Rachida [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
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Manufacturer: First Run Features
Starring: Ibtissem Djouadi, Bahia Rachedi, Rachida Messaoui En, Hamid Remas, Zaki Boulenafed
Directed By: Yamina Bachir
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0720229911498
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: First Run Features
Manufacturer: First Run Features
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: First Run Features
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2005-03-22
Running Time: 100
Studio: First Run Features
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
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Summary: The Innocent Suffer when Law and Order Breakdown
Comment: This fascinating film takes a look at life in Algeria during the 1990s when the government was undergoing transition and change. Terrorism was rampant and life for the majority of civilians was tenuous and insecure.
Rachida is a teacher in her mid-twenties who loves her job and has strong opinions about justice and civil rights ... She is cornered one day, by thugs who want her to take a briefcase that contains a bomb to the school. Of course she refuses. This happens out in the open streets, but no one comes to her aid. The terrorist and his accomplices surround her, one takes out a gun and shoots her in the abdomen. She is left lying on the sidewalk ... bleeding. The shooters flee ... Someone comes to her rescure and calls for an ambulance. A crowd grows larger as curious people push to see what happened ...
Rachida's mother sits on a bench in the hospital ... weeping softly ... waiting to here if her daughter lives or dies, as they operate to remove the bullet in her abdomen. Luckily, Rachida survives and awakens. She calls out for her mom, who is allowed to spend a few minutes with her. Her boyfriend visits as she is recovering. She learns her assailant was a former student. She can not fathom why he would shoot her ... After her release from the hospital, Rachida and her mom plan to leave their apartment home in the city and go to a small town in the mountains. They fear for their safty, believing that if the terrorist group knows Rachida survived she would be targeted for death, as she would recognize her assailants.
Rachida and her mom move to a small home in the mountains. They maintain a low profile and are visited at first only by a female relative who provided this safe haven for them. Rachida applies for a teaching job locally and becomes established at the local primary school. Again the problems from the city spread to the countryside. Terrorists set up roadblocks to shakedown drivers on the winding roads to this mountain village. They make surprise raids on the village ... The elderly and shop keepers are leery ... Young children are warned to stay away from strangers ... One beautiful girl escaped her captors and made her way back to the village. She suffers ostrasizement by her own father due to a cultural prejudice. The women take her back and care for her ... as she is pregnant from having been raped. Several children are the offspring of such events and cared for by local women ...
One night during a wedding celebration ... the terrorists strike again. The sad and tragic outcomes of this raid are superbly depicted. This film shows the viewer how very senseless and cruel terrorism is. It provides a visual witness to carnage, destruction and desolation that results from ill spent energy ... when the opposite could be true as the same energy could be used to build peace, harmony, and a stable nation. The film is most highly recommended. Erika Borsos (pepper flower)
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Summary: Rachida
Comment: This was an extremely moving and disturbing account of the struggle in Algeria which lasted over a decade and which unfortunately still goes on today, on a slightly smaller scale. My partner is from Algeria and thought that the film was accurate in its depiction of the suffering caused to innocent civilians throughout this civil war. Despite the nature of the film, it contained many touching and sometimes funny scenes, and the music was in touch with what was happening to the people.
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Summary: Excellent
Comment: A beautiful movie,which gives an excellent insight of the trauma Algeria went through this last decade.
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