Dawn of the Damned

    Dawn of the Damned
    1965

    Synopsis

    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.

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    Cast

    • Mouloud MammeriNarrator (voice)
    • Mohamed Chouikh
    • René Vautier
    • Ahmed Rachedi
    • Samia Meziane
    • Sid Ahmed Agoumi
    • Mahdia Magroufel
    • Hamou Saadaoui
    • Daniel Boukman
    • Salah Teskouk

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