Dawn of the Damned
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.
Year: 1965
Genre: Documentary, History, Drama
Studio: Centre National du Cinéma Algérien (CNCA)
Director: Ahmed Rachedi
Cast: Mouloud Mammeri, Mohamed Chouikh, René Vautier, Ahmed Rachedi, Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane, Sid Ahmed Agoumi
Crew: Sidi Boumedienne Dahmane (Sound), Rabah Dabouz (Editor), Ahmed Rachedi (Director), Mouloud Mammeri (Writer), Ahmed Rachedi (Writer), René Vautier (Writer)
Runtime: 85 minutes
Release: Jul 05, 1965
IMDb: 7.20/10 by 6 users
Popularity: 1
Country: Algeria
Language: العربية, Français
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Keyword : africa, colonialism, algeria, struggle for independence, anti-colonialism, maghreb, independance war
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