Release Date: 1965-07-05
Runtime: 85
Languages: العربية | Français
Rating: 7.2
Votes: 6
Genres: Documentary | History | Drama
Director: Ahmed Rachedi
Description: 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 Al...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.Read More
Production Companies:
Centre National du Cinéma Algérien (CNCA)
