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05/07/1965 Documentary, History, Drama 1h 25m
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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.

  1. Ahmed Rachedi

    Director, Writer

  2. Mouloud Mammeri

    Writer

  3. René Vautier

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Mouloud Mammeri

    Narrator (voice)

  2. Mohamed Chouikh

  3. René Vautier

  4. Ahmed Rachedi

  5. Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane

  6. Sid Ahmed Agoumi

  7. Salah Teskouk

  8. Samia Meziane

  9. Mahdia Magroufel

  10. View more

Full Cast & Crew

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Status
Released

Original Language
French

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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