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Dawn of the Damned

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.

Top 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

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.

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