L'Aube des Damnés (1965)

Run Time: 1h25m | Release: 05 Jul 1965

Genres: Documentary | History | Drama |

Production Countries: Algeria

7.2 / 106 Vote Count

Overview:

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.