Hundred Faces for a Single Day (1972)
Género : Documental
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 10M
Director : Christian Ghazi
Sinopsis
Rejecting all propagandistic or narrative convention, Ghazi combined documentary and abstract sequences with a series of discontinuous plot lines to organize a stinging attack on the bourgeois decadence of Beirut's political milieu.
Basada en hechos reales. Tras el asesinato de varios atletas israelíes por el grupo terrorista "Septiembre negro" en los Juegos Olímpicos de Múnich de 1972, un agente especial del Mossad tuvo que ejecutar una misión altamente secreta: asesinar a los responsables.
Beirut, Líbano. Zain es un niño de doce años inteligente y valiente, que sobrevive a los peligros de las calles de la ciudad gracias a su ingenio. Huyendo de sus padres, y haciendo valer sus derechos, recurre a la justicia para demandarles por el 'crimen' de haberle dado la vida. Una fábula contemporánea de carácter político sobre un niño que se rebela contra la vida que le han impuesto vivir .
Mason Skiles (Jon Hamm) es uno de los diplomáticos más importantes de Estados Unidos que abandonó el Líbano en la década de los 70 tras un trágico incidente. Diez años más tarde, la CIA lo llama de vuelta a un Beirut devastado por la guerra con una misión que sólo él puede cumplir. Mientras tanto, una agente de la CIA (Rosamund Pike) que trabaja encubierta en la embajada estadounidense tiene la tarea de mantener a Skiles con vida y asegurar que la misión sea un éxito. Sin saber quién está de su lado y con vidas en juego, Skiles debe superar todos los obstáculos para exponer la verdad.
Naomi, an Israeli Mossad agent, is sent to Germany to protect Mona, a Lebanese informant recovering from plastic surgery to assume her new identity. Together for two weeks in a quiet apartment in Hamburg, the relationship that develops between the two women is soon exposed to the threat of terror that is engulfing the world today. In this game of deception, beliefs are questioned, choices are made, and their fate takes a surprising turn.
Historia de dos adolescentes musulmanes, llamados Tarek y Omar, que durante la guerra del Líbano despiertan al amor y se enamoran de la misma muchacha, una cristiana llamada May. La violencia del entorno condicionará sus vidas y las de sus parientes. (FILMAFFINITY)
Disillusioned with his life in the suburbs of segregated Beirut, Omar's unusual discovery lures him into the depth of the city. Immersed into a world that is so close yet so isolated from his reality, he finds himself struggling to keep his attachments, his sense of home.
A couple of beautiful girls are murdered while sunbathing at a luxury hotel. The killer too is murdered, but able to reveal – before dying - that they were disposed of because the “knew too much”. Something bad is being planned in Beirut, and it has something to do with a man called The Sheikh, who has only four fingers. It seems this isn’t a lone incident. The Sheikh is also thought to be behind the assassination of several prominent scientists.
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