Queye TV Dawn of the Damned
Documentary
History
Drama
Dawn of the Damned
L'Aube des Damnés
1965
1:25
★ 7.4
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

Mouloud Mammeri

Narrator (voice)

Mohamed Chouikh

René Vautier

Ahmed Rachedi

Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane

Sid Ahmed Agoumi

Salah Teskouk

Samia Meziane

Mahdia Magroufel

Hamou Saadaoui

Crew

Rabah Dabouz

Editor

Sidi Boumedienne Dahmane

Sound

Ahmed Rachedi

Director

Mouloud Mammeri

Writer

Ahmed Rachedi

Writer

René Vautier

Writer

Nasredine Guénifi

Director of Photography

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