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Dawn of the Damned (1965)

★ 7.4/10 85 min Documentary, History, Drama Algeria French
Director: Ahmed Rachedi
Streaming: Not available

Description

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.

Top Cast

Mouloud Mammeri
Mouloud Mammeri Narrator (voice)
Mohamed Chouikh
Mohamed Chouikh
René Vautier
René Vautier
Ahmed Rachedi
Ahmed Rachedi
Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane
Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane
Sid Ahmed Agoumi
Sid Ahmed Agoumi
Salah Teskouk
Salah Teskouk
Samia Meziane

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