Dawn of the Damned

The story

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 & crew

Mouloud MammeriNarrator (voice)

Mohamed ChouikhCast

René VautierCast

Ahmed RachediCast

Mazouz Ould-AbderrahmaneCast

Sid Ahmed AgoumiCast

Salah TeskoukCast

Samia Meziane

Samia MezianeCast

Mahdia Magroufel

Mahdia MagroufelCast

Hamou Saadaoui

Hamou SaadaouiCast

Daniel Boukman

Daniel BoukmanCast