Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War

Name: Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War
Director: Masao Adachi, Kōji Wakamatsu
Released: 1971
Duration: 70 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Mustafa Abu Ali, Masao Adachi, George Habash, Susumu Iwabuchi, Leila Khaled

1971 · 70 MIN · IMDB 6.2 · 181 VOTES · DIR. Masao Adachi, Kōji Wakamatsu

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Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 689 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:00 Editing Collective: Red Army - PFLP

00:02:46 Moreover, the supreme form of truth is armed struggle.

00:04:11 by firm solidarity with various leftist

00:08:20 'Revolutionary Left' Faction

00:09:59 The revolutionary army will fight

00:11:59 we thought of how to defend our revolution

00:14:25 not just one side.

00:16:00 that we are not fighting this war as our hobby

00:19:33 It is because we fight for this country and people

00:21:28 ARMED STRUGGLE

00:23:24 into an offensive weapon.

00:24:57 not only the youth

00:27:48 This is because the political and military position

00:32:17 They make no distinction

00:45:22 Can one say that PFLP was able to stand on the principle

00:49:28 I came here to understand more fully the Palestinian Revolution.

00:51:37 in China, Vietnam, and the rest of the world

00:53:55 No one and nothing can stop us.

00:55:45 Since our struggles and the lessons belong to

00:57:40 we have been more or less idealist.

00:59:58 but what I felt coming here is that even if we now speak of

01:02:07 or rather because they had only considered it through an idealistic prism.

01:04:11 all differ from one another, and from such disjuncture

01:06:09 Despite the difficulty

Cast & Characters

Mustafa Abu Ali Self Masao Adachi Self George Habash Self Susumu Iwabuchi Self Leila Khaled Self Masao Matsuda Self Aoi Nakajima Self Fusako Shigenobu Self Rokihiro Toga Self

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed689

Dialogue density9.8 lines / min

First line00:00:00

Final line01:06:09

Production Record

DirectorMasao Adachi, Kōji Wakamatsu

LanguageJapanese

IMDb votes181