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.

• DirectorAhmed Rachedi
• Release5 July 1965
• Genre
  Documentary / History
• Duration1h 25m
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  7.2
  6 reviews
• Productions

  Centre National du Cinéma Algérien (CNCA)