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Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War

Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 29, 1971

Runtime

1h 10m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

71%

Original Title

赤軍-PLFP 世界戦争宣言

Production Companies

Wakamatsu Production

Director

Kōji Wakamatsu

Description

On their way back from the Cannes Film Festival in 1971, filmmakers Wakamatsu Koji and Adachi Masao visited Lebanon to meet Japan's Red Army faction and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to shoot a newsreel film promoting the Palestinian resistance. Conceived as a ‘declaration of world war’ that implicates us all, the directors capture the everyday banality of military training and preparation exercises for imminent battle.