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Dawn of the Damned

1965 • 1h25m Documentary, History, Drama

Rating

7.2/10

Popularity

0

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.

Details

Director

Ahmed Rachedi

Screenplay

Mouloud Mammeri

Ahmed Rachedi

René Vautier

Cast

Mouloud Mammeri

Mohamed Chouikh

René Vautier

Release date

7/5/1965

Status

Released

Origin country

DZ

Vote count

6