Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War

(1971)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 12 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1971

Runtime: 70 мин

Country: Japan, Palestinian Territory

Director: 足立正生, 若松孝二

Cast: Rokihiro Toga, 中島葵, Susumu Iwabuchi, 松田政男, 足立正生, Fusako Shigenobu, Leila Khaled, غسان كنفاني, Mustafa Abu Ali

Plot

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.