Movie Description
L'Aube des Damnés
(1965)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.
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Facts
Original TitleL'Aube des Damnés
Status Released
Release Information
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1965-07-05
Original LanguageUnknown
Runtime 01h 25m
Production CompaniesCentre National du Cinéma Algérien (CNCA)
Genres
- Documentary
- History
- Drama
