Lebanon in a Whirlwind

Lebanon in a Whirlwind

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 1, 1975

Runtime

1h 15m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

50%

Original Title

Le Liban dans la tourmente

Director

Jocelyne Saab

Description

A few months after the incident of April 13, 1975, during which Palestinian civilians were machine-gunned by Phalangist militiamen, the toll is most tragic: six thousand dead, twenty thousand wounded, incessant kidnappings, a semi-destroyed capital. This film traces the origins of the Lebanese conflict, the perception of a society that goes to war while singing. A unique document on the Lebanese civil war. Beyond the religious war, the painting of a social and political reality that has not changed much, more than four decades later.