Dawn of the Damned

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Dawn of the Damned (1965)

Directed by Ahmed Rachedi

Documentary, History, Drama · 1h 25m

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.

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Cast

Mouloud Mammeri Narrator (voice) Mohamed Chouikh René Vautier Ahmed Rachedi Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane Sid Ahmed Agoumi Salah Teskouk
S
Samia Meziane
M
Mahdia Magroufel
H
Hamou Saadaoui
D
Daniel Boukman

Crew

Director
Ahmed Rachedi
Writer
Ahmed Rachedi, Mouloud Mammeri, René Vautier
Director of Photography
Nasredine Guénifi
Editor
Rabah Dabouz

Details

Original title
L'Aube des Damnés
Release date
1965-07-05
Runtime
1h 25m
Genres
Documentary, History, Drama
Original language
FR
Spoken languages
Arabic, French
Countries
Algeria
Production
Centre National du Cinéma Algérien (CNCA)