Dawn of the Damned

Name: Dawn of the Damned
Genre: Documentary, History, Drama
Released: 1965-07-05
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 7.429
Cast: Mouloud Mammeri, Mohamed Chouikh, René Vautier, Ahmed Rachedi, Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane

L'Aube des Damnés

7.4 (7)1965-07-051h 25m

DocumentaryHistoryDrama

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.