Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War

Name: Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War
Director: Masao Adachi
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1971-09-29
Duration: 70 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Rokihiro Toga, Aoi Nakajima, Susumu Iwabuchi, Masao Matsuda, Masao Adachi

Original title: 赤軍-PFLP 世界戦争宣言

6.5(12)19711h 10mJA

Directed by Masao Adachi

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.