Dawn of the Damned (1965)
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.
Director: Ahmed Rachedi
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Mouloud Mammeri as Narrator (voice) |
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Mohamed Chouikh as |
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René Vautier as |
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Ahmed Rachedi as |
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Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane as |
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Sid Ahmed Agoumi as |
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Salah Teskouk as |
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Samia Meziane as |
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Mahdia Magroufel as |
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Hamou Saadaoui as |
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Daniel Boukman as |
| Sound | Sidi Boumedienne Dahmane | Sound |
| Editing | Rabah Dabouz | Editor |
| Directing | Ahmed Rachedi | Director |
| Writing | Mouloud Mammeri | Writer |
| Writing | Ahmed Rachedi | Writer |
| Writing | René Vautier | Writer |
| Camera | Nasredine Guénifi | Director of Photography |
