CinemaOSMovie · 1965 · 1h 25m

Dawn of the Damned

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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.

Directed byAhmed Rachedi

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 25m
Language
FR
Released
July 5, 1965
Studios
Centre National du Cinéma Algérien (CNCA)

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
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

Mahdia Magroufel

Hamou Saadaoui

Creative team
Directed by
Ahmed Rachedi
Ahmed Rachedi
Written by
Mouloud Mammeri
Mouloud Mammeri
Ahmed Rachedi
Ahmed Rachedi

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