L'Aube des Damnés (1965)
Dawn of the Damned
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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Mouloud Mammeri
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
Mohamed Chouikh
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René Vautier
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Ahmed Rachedi
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Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane
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Sid Ahmed Agoumi
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as
Salah Teskouk
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as
Samia Meziane
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Mahdia Magroufel
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Hamou Saadaoui
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Daniel Boukman
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Nasredine Guénifi
Cinematography
Cinematography
Rabah Dabouz
Editor
Editor
Sidi Boumedienne Dahmane
Sound
Sound
Ahmed Rachedi
Director
Director
Mouloud Mammeri
Writer
Writer
Ahmed Rachedi
Writer
Writer
René Vautier
Writer
Writer
