The Yemeni Revolution (, transliterated as Thawret al-Yaman) an Egyptian film released in 1966. The film directed by Atef Salem and screenplay by Saleh Morsi stars Emad Hamdy, Magda al-Sabahi, Hassan Youssef, Salah Qabil, and Salah Mansour. The film was shot in the Old City of Sana’a and Taiz.
Synopsis
A young man named Mansour bin Samoud (Hassan Youssef) returns from studies abroad in Egypt to his native Taiz, Yemen, to find his family waiting for him as well as the rule of the last Zaidi Imam. The latter figure does not like having educated young men around and tries to have Mansour executed. Mansour joins the Free Yemeni Movement that overthrows the Imam a September 26, 1962 coup with the support of Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Egyptian government that leads to the North Yemen Civil War.