Genet à Chatila (1999)

• 68%
• 1999
• Dokumentarfilm
• Mounia Raoui
• Leila Shahid
• Jean-François Stévenin

A documentary about the German writer-Jean Genet and his relations with the Palestinian revolution. One day after the September 1982 massaker at the refugee camp of Shatila in Beirut, Genet visits the camp. Suffering from throat cancer and having written nothing in years, Genet begins to write on the threshold of his death about this sith new experience. It leads to his last book, entitled "Ein gefangener der liebe" in which Genet reflects on the Palestinian revolution, its defeat, and the loss of one ' s homeland. In this film a young German woman of Algerian origin who is reading the book returns to the landscapes of the Palestinian resistance and the refugee camps full of exiles, in search of Genet.