Dawn of the Damned
6 votes
This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is a film about death. Its most shocking sequences derive from the captured French film archives in Algeria containing - unbelievably - masses of French-shot documentary footage of their tortures, massacres and executions of Algerians. The real death of children, passers-by, resistance fighters, one after the other, becomes unbearable. Rather than be blatant propaganda, the film convinces entirely by its visual evidence, constituting an object lesson for revolutionary cinema.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1965-07-05
Runtime: 85 mins
Director: Ahmed Rachedi
Writer: Ahmed Rachedi, Mouloud Mammeri, René Vautier
Spoken language: العربية, Français
Genres: Documentary, History, Drama
Original title: Dawn of the Damned
Production Companies: Centre National du Cinéma Algérien (CNCA)
Production Countries: Algeria
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