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.
Genre: Documentary, History, Drama
Stars: Mouloud Mammeri, Mohamed Chouikh, René Vautier, Ahmed Rachedi, Samia Meziane, Sid Ahmed Agoumi
Crew: Ahmed Rachedi (Director), Mouloud Mammeri (Writer), Ahmed Rachedi (Writer), René Vautier (Writer), Nasredine Guénifi (Cinematography), Rabah Dabouz (Editor)
Country: Algeria
Language: العربية, Français
Studio: Centre National du Cinéma Algérien (CNCA)
Runtime: 85 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jul 05, 1965
IMDb: 3.8
