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Dawn of the Damned
Dawn of the Damned

Dawn of the Damned

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DocumentaryHistoryDrama

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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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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

French

Runtime

85 mins

Rating

7.2/10

Release Date

05 July 1965

Country

Algeria

Cast

Mouloud Mammeri

Mouloud Mammeri

Narrator (voice)

Mohamed Chouikh

Mohamed Chouikh

René Vautier

René Vautier

Ahmed Rachedi

Ahmed Rachedi

Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane

Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane

Sid Ahmed Agoumi

Sid Ahmed Agoumi

Salah Teskouk

Salah Teskouk

Samia Meziane

Samia Meziane

Mahdia Magroufel

Mahdia Magroufel

Hamou Saadaoui

Hamou Saadaoui

Daniel Boukman

Daniel Boukman

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