Dawn of the Damned (1965)
Release Date: 05 July 1965
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.
Runtime: 85 min
Vote Average: 7.2
Vote Count: 6
Production Companies : Centre National du Cinéma Algérien (CNCA),
Production Countries: Algeria
Budget: $ 0
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Cast
Mouloud Mammeri
Mohamed Chouikh
René Vautier
Ahmed Rachedi
Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane
Sid Ahmed Agoumi
Salah Teskouk
Samia Meziane
Mahdia Magroufel
Hamou Saadaoui
Daniel Boukman
