Dawn of the Damned
7.2|1965|1h 25m| FR
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.
Genres: Documentary, History, Drama
Director: Ahmed Rachedi
Votes: 6
Production Companies: 
Centre National du Cinéma Algérien (CNCA)
