Dawn of the Damned (movie)
L'Aube des Damnés- User score: 7.2
- Production country: Algeria
- Producer: Ahmed Rachedi
- Production companies: Centre National du Cinéma Algérien (CNCA)
- Genre: Documentary, History, Drama
- Release date: 7/5/1965
- Run time: 85 min.
Movie description
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.
