Dawn of the Damned
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.
Cast
Mouloud MammeriNarrator (voice)
Mohamed Chouikh
René Vautier
Ahmed Rachedi
Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane
Sid Ahmed Agoumi
Salah TeskoukSamia Meziane
Mahdia Magroufel
Hamou Saadaoui
Daniel Boukman
Crew
DirectorAhmed Rachedi
Details
Original TitleL'Aube des Damnés
Release DateJuly 5, 1965
LanguagesArabic, French
StudiosCentre National du Cinéma Algérien (CNCA)
