Genet à Chatila
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A documentary about the French writer Jean Genet and his relations with the Palestinian revolution. One day after the September 1982 massacre 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 disturbing new experience. It leads to his last book, entitled “Un captif amoureux” in which Genet reflects on the Palestinian revolution, its defeat, and the loss of one’s homeland. In this film a young French 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.
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Cast
12 people
Mounia Raoui
Mounia
Known for
Our Children
An Impossible Love
Leila Shahid
Self
Also in
The Thousand and One Days of Hajj Edmond
Jours tranquilles en Palestine
Richard Dindo
Henri Maïkoff
Robert Boner
Also in
Guns
Jean-François Stévenin
Narrator (voice)
Known for
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Small Change
Richard Copans
Ned Burgess
Jean Genet
Also in
Shiraz 70
Rainer Trinkler
Yves Jeanneau
Serge Lalou
Richard Dindo Director · Jean Genet Writer Ned Burgess Cinematographer
United States release October 1, 2000 · Produced in Switzerland, France · Production Lea Produktion
Production
Les Films d'Ici
Production
Lea Produktion
Production
Switzerland · France
Produced in
Languages
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
Switzerland · August 10, 1999
Premiere · Locarno Film Festival
Switzerland · November 24, 1999
Theatrical · French
United States · October 1, 2000
Premiere · Denver International Film Festival
Brazil
October 1, 2000 · Premiere · São Paulo International Film Festival
Canada
October 1, 1999 · Montréal Festival of New Cinema
Colombia
June 11, 2001 · Cine Suizo para América Latina - Medellín
France
April 19, 2000 · Theatrical
Germany
November 2, 1999 · Premiere · Duisburger Filmwoche
Israel
April 1, 2000 · Premiere · DocAviv Film Festival
Netherlands
November 1, 1999 · Premiere · Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival
Switzerland
December 9, 1999 · Theatrical · German
Tunisia
October 1, 2000 · Premiere · Carthage Film Festival
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