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.
Release Date
July 5, 1965Runtime
85 minDirected by
Ahmed RachediWritten by
Ahmed Rachedi, Mouloud Mammeri, René VautierLanguage
ArabicBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
ReleasedCast
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