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.
Release Date : Jul 05, 1965
Genres : Documentary, History, Drama
Production Company : Centre National du Cinéma Algérien (CNCA)
Production Countries : Algeria
Original Language : العربية, Français
Casts : Mouloud Mammeri, Mohamed Chouikh, René Vautier, Ahmed Rachedi, Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane, Sid Ahmed Agoumi, Salah Teskouk, Samia Meziane, Mahdia Magroufel, Hamou Saadaoui, Daniel Boukman
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Status : Released
Budget : 0
Revenue : 0
