Dawn of the Damned

Storyline

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.

Cast & Crew

Mouloud Mammeri

Narrator (voice)

Lead

Mohamed Chouikh

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René Vautier

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Ahmed Rachedi

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Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane

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Sid Ahmed Agoumi

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Salah Teskouk

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SM

Samia Meziane

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