Dawn of the Damned
7.2
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1965-07-05
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Documentary
History
Drama
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.
Featured Crew
| Nasredine Guénifi | Cinematography |
| Sidi Boumedienne Dahmane | Sound |
| Rabah Dabouz | Editor |
| Ahmed Rachedi | Director |
| Mouloud Mammeri | Writer |
| Ahmed Rachedi | Writer |
| René Vautier | Writer |
