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.
About Dawn of the Damned (1965)
Released in 1965, Dawn of the Damned is a documentary, history and drama film from Centre National du Cinéma Algérien (CNCA) (Algeria). It was directed by Ahmed Rachedi and written by Mouloud Mammeri and Ahmed Rachedi. The cast is led by Mouloud Mammeri, Mohamed Chouikh, René Vautier, Ahmed Rachedi and Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane. With a runtime of 1h 25m, the film averages 7.4/10 across 7 TMDB ratings.
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