Dawn of the Damned

Dawn of the Damned

1h 25m 7.2/10

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.

Director

Ahmed Rachedi

Top Billed Cast

René Vautier

René Vautier

Sid Ahmed Agoumi

Sid Ahmed Agoumi

Ahmed Rachedi

Ahmed Rachedi

Mohamed Chouikh

Mohamed Chouikh

Mouloud Mammeri

Mouloud Mammeri

Narrator (voice)

Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane

Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane

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