Release Date

05 Jul, 1965

Runtime

01:25: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

L'Aube des Damnés

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Actors

Mouloud Mammeri

Mohamed Chouikh

René Vautier

Ahmed Rachedi

Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane

Sid Ahmed Agoumi

Salah Teskouk

Samia Meziane

Mahdia Magroufel

Hamou Saadaoui

Daniel Boukman

Crew

Rabah Dabouz

Sidi Boumedienne Dahmane

Ahmed Rachedi

Mouloud Mammeri

Ahmed Rachedi

René Vautier

Nasredine Guénifi