Dawn of the Damned
1965 • Documentary | History
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Ahmed Rachedi
Director
Ahmed Rachedi
Writer
Mouloud Mammeri
Writer
René Vautier
Writer
Status
Released
Release date
July 5, 1965
Duration
85 Min
Language
fr
Popularity
0.1903
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
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.
























