Sekigun-P.F.L.P: Sekai sensô sengen

Sep 30 1971 N/A 1h 9m
Documentary

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.

Plot

It was a milestone of film as activism, cinema as movement in Japan's context. Adachi and Wakamatsu went to Beirut on the way back from the Cannes Film Festival. There, in collaboration with the Red Army members and PFLP, they produced this newsreel film depicting the everyday activities of Arab guerrillas as a cinematic narrative on the world revolution.

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Directed by

Masao Adachi, Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast

Mustafa Abu Ali, Masao Adachi, George Habash

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Production Countries

Japan

Production Companies

Wakamatsu Production

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