Dawn of the Damned

Dawn of the Damned (1965)

7.4 85 min Movie
DocumentaryHistoryDrama

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 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 Samia Meziane
Mahdia Magroufel Mahdia Magroufel
Hamou Saadaoui Hamou Saadaoui
Daniel Boukman Daniel Boukman

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