Overview - Dawn of the Damned

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.

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• Name: Mouloud Mammeri

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• Name: Mohamed Chouikh

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• Name: René Vautier

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• Name: Ahmed Rachedi

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• Name: Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane

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• Name: Sid Ahmed Agoumi

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• Name: Salah Teskouk

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• Name: Samia Meziane

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