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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

July 5, 1965

Original language

Arabic

Spoken languages

Arabic, French

Countries

Algeria

Production

Centre National du Cinéma Algérien (CNCA)

Cast

Mouloud Mammeri,Samia Meziane,Mohamed Chouikh,Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane,Salah Teskouk,Mahdia Magroufel,Daniel Boukman,Ahmed Rachedi,Hamou Saadaoui,Sid Ahmed Agoumiand 1 more

Director

Ahmed Rachedi

Writer

Mouloud Mammeri,Ahmed Rachedi,René Vautier

Cinematography

Nasredine Guénifi

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0165631