Dawn of the Damned
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.
Cast
Mouloud Mammeri
as Narrator (voice)
Mohamed Chouikh
as
René Vautier
as
Ahmed Rachedi
as
Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane
as
Sid Ahmed Agoumi
as
Salah Teskouk
as
Samia Meziane
as
Mahdia Magroufel
as
Hamou Saadaoui
as
