Dawn of the Damned (1965)

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.

Directing:
  • Ahmed Rachedi

Writing:
  • Ahmed Rachedi
  • Mouloud Mammeri
  • René Vautier

Stars:
Release Date: 1965-07-05
themoviedb icon 7.2/10
  • Country: DZ
  • Language: العربية | Français
  • Runtime: 85
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