![Dawn of the Damned](https://i3.wp.com/image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/lofBqYj9p4eefPAQlzrQ5d9SgHk.jpg)
Plot
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.
Writer | Mouloud Mammeri |
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Director | Ahmed Rachedi |
Actor | Mouloud Mammeri, Mohamed Chouikh, René Vautier |
Country | Algeria |
Production | Centre National du Cinéma Algérien (CNCA) |