Lebanon in a Whirlwind

(1975)

★ 6 IMDb · 3 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1975

Runtime: 75 мин

Country: Lebanon, France

Director: Jörg Stocklin, Jocelyne Saab

Cast: Jocelyne Saab, Etel Adnan

Plot

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.