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Dawn of the Damned
Dawn of the Damned

Dawn of the Damned

1965

7.2

Categories:

  • Documentary
  • History
  • Drama

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.

Ahmed Rachedi

Director, Writer

Mouloud Mammeri

Writer

René Vautier

Writer

Cast:

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  • Mouloud Mammeri

    Mouloud Mammeri

    Narrator (voice)
  • Mohamed Chouikh

    Mohamed Chouikh

  • René Vautier

    René Vautier

  • Ahmed Rachedi

    Ahmed Rachedi

  • Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane

    Mazouz Ould-Abderrahma...

  • Sid Ahmed Agoumi

    Sid Ahmed Agoumi