Dawn of the Damned
Genres
Overview
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.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
85 min
Release Date
1965-07-05
Status
Released
Original Language
French
Vote Count
6
Vote Average
7.2
Mouloud Mammeri
Narrator (voice)
Mohamed Chouikh
René Vautier
Ahmed Rachedi
Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane
Sid Ahmed Agoumi
Salah Teskouk
Samia Meziane
Mahdia Magroufel
Hamou Saadaoui
Daniel Boukman
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6.0
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