Dawn of the Damned (1965)

Original title

L'Aube des Damnés

Directed by

Ahmed Rachedi

Genre

documentary film

Country

Algeria

Runtime

1h 25m

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This documentary uses archival footage to build an anticolonial argument about the history of Africa. It is one of the first films made in independent Algeria.

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What happens

L'Aube des damnés (Fajr al-mu'adhhabin) est un film documentaire algérien réalisé par Ahmed Rachedi et sorti en 1965. Comptant parmi les premiers films du cinéma algérien indépendant, L'Aube des damnés est un film de montage d'images d'archives, formant un réquisitoire anticolonialiste sur l'histoire de l’Afrique. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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