L'Aube des Damnés
Movie - 85mins
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:
Salah
Teskouk
Samia
Meziane
Mahdia
Magroufel
Hamou
Saadaoui
Daniel
Boukman
Mouloud
Mammeri
Mohamed
Chouikh
René
Vautier
Ahmed
Rachedi
Mazouz
Ould-Abderrahmane
Sid
Ahmed
Salah
Teskouk
Samia
Meziane
Mahdia
Magroufel
Hamou
Saadaoui
Daniel
Boukman
Mouloud
Mammeri
Mohamed
Chouikh
René
Vautier
Ahmed
Rachedi
Mazouz
Ould-Abderrahmane