

05/07/1965
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.

Mouloud Mammeri
as Narrator (voice)

Mohamed Chouikh
as

René Vautier
as

Ahmed Rachedi
as

Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane
as

Sid Ahmed Agoumi
as

Salah Teskouk
as

Samia Meziane
as

Mahdia Magroufel
as

Hamou Saadaoui
as

Daniel Boukman
as
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