1965
7.2 (6 votes)
1h 25m
Genres
Documentary
History
Drama
Production Companies
Centre National du Cinéma Algérien (CNCA)
Dawn of the Damned (L'Aube des Damnés)
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.
Key Crew
Director: Ahmed Rachedi
Writer: Ahmed Rachedi, Mouloud Mammeri, René Vautier
Director of Photography: Nasredine Guénifi
Top Cast
Mouloud Mammeri
Narrator (voice)
Mohamed Chouikh
René Vautier
Ahmed Rachedi
Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane
Sid Ahmed Agoumi
