Lebanon in a Whirlwind
Le Liban dans la tourmente
Jocelyne Saab, Jörg Stocklin
Months after the incident on April 13, 1975, during which Palestinian civilians were gunned down by Phalangist militia, the numbers are even more horrifying: 6.000 dead, 20.000 injured, daily kidnappings and a capital city half destroyed. This film, a unique document about the Lebanese civil war, goes back to the origins of the conflict as seen by a society that went to war singing and with their heads held high.