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.
Dawn of the Damned explores themes of africa, colonialism, algeria. A blend of Documentary and History, it is available to stream for free in HD on Ernax — no account required.
Genre: Documentary, History, Drama
Runtime: 85 min
Director: Ahmed Rachedi
Writers: Mouloud Mammeri, Ahmed Rachedi
Cast: Mouloud Mammeri, Mohamed Chouikh, René Vautier, Ahmed Rachedi, Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane, Sid Ahmed Agoumi, Salah Teskouk, Samia Meziane, Mahdia Magroufel, Hamou Saadaoui, Daniel Boukman
Country: Algeria
Language: Arabic, French
Themes: africa, colonialism, algeria, struggle for independence, anti-colonialism, maghreb, independance war
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