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Massaker (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival

Language Selections:
Arabic ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
105 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Booklet

Movie filmed in 2005 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Lebanon ( Africa, Middle East )

Directed By:
Monika Borgmann
Nina Menkes

Written By:
Monika Borgmann
Hermann Theissen

Actors:
Monika Borgmann

Synopsis:

Interviews with six of the mass murderers from Sabra and Shatilla. The faces are in black and are not identifiable.

Psychological and political portrait of six of the men who took part in the massacres at the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian camps in Lebanon in 1982.

Between September 16 and 18, 1982, for two nights and three days, the killers of Sabra and Shatila went about their heinous crimes. In the end, they had murdered between 1,000 and 3,000 Palestinian civilians, predominantly women, children and old people. The precise number of victims both those killed and those missing is not known to this very day. The perpetrators primarily originated from the ranks of the Forces Libanaises, Christian militia affiliated to Israel. The logistics for this massacre were provided by the Israeli Army, under the auspices of the former Minister of Defence and current Minister President, Ariel Sharon. In 1982, the massacre in the Lebanese Palestinian camps deeply shook the public throughout the world, but today it has been (almost) entirely forgotten. This is despite the fact that it is a role model for all the massacres that followed: for example that in Rwanda or those committed during the Yugoslavian wars. Again and again, the unanswered questions surface: what drives people to such excesses of brutality, and how are the perpetrators able to live on?

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 21 January, 2009.

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