

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.
Director
Ahmed Rachedi
Writers
Mouloud Mammeri, Ahmed Rachedi
Release Date
July 5, 1965
Runtime
1h 25m
Status
Released
Original Language
fr
Vote Count
6
