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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.
July 5, 1965
Centre National du Cinéma Algérien (CNCA)
11 people
Mouloud Mammeri
Narrator (voice)
Writing
Mohamed Chouikh
Directing
René Vautier
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Ahmed Rachedi
Directing
Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane
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Sid Ahmed Agoumi
Acting
Salah Teskouk
Acting
Samia Meziane
Acting
Mahdia Magroufel
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Hamou Saadaoui
Acting
Daniel Boukman
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