(L'Aube des Damnés)

Content: 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.

Countries:

Algeria

Genres:

Documentary,

History,

Drama

Runtime:

85 minutes

Year:

1965

Directors:

Ahmed Rachedi

Production companies:

Centre National du Cinéma Algérien (CNCA)

Actors:

Narrator (voice)

Crews:

Sound

Editor

Director

Writer

Writer