Film

Genet à Chatila

1999 · 1h 38m · Documentary

IMDb

6.9

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.

Mounia Raoui

Mounia

Leila Shahid

Self

Jean-François Stévenin

Narrator (voice)

• Richard DindoDirector · Writer · Editor
• Jean GenetWriter
• Richard CopansProducer
• Yves JeanneauProducer
• Serge LalouProducer
• Ned BurgessDirector of Photography
• Rainer TrinklerEditor

Release date

November 24, 1999

Status

Released

Original language

French

Runtime

1h 38m

Genres

Documentary