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      Massaker

      2005 1h 38m Documentary List
      Reviews The filmmakers show interviews with six mass-murderers from Sabra and Shatilla, whose faces are unidentifiable or blacked out. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member This film is a truly astonishing achievement by Monika Borgmann in capturing the narratives of some of the perpetrators of the Sabra and Shatila massacres. The film documents the brutal murder, by Bachir Gemayel's Isreali-trained personal army, of Palestinian civilians and militants in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps that took place in 1982, during Lebenon's tragic civil war. (Read more about the background here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre.) The documentary, which took three years to make, provides unadulterated access to the voices of six murderers and their brutal acts, nothing censured, however horrific. Shot as if these murderers are being interrogated, with their faces in shadows and only their body language and words being presented, it is an unpleasant film to watch. But in capturing something universal about individual and collective violence, the film not only provides additional evidence to these infamous massacres, but also insights into how genocidal mass murder can be perpetrated by fellow human beings. When one murderer talks about being desensitised to killing by the third murder ("you kill the first and didn't like it, the second you are unsure, the third is okay and by the fourth you are enjoying yourself" - from memory, so not exact quote) your mind turns to Cambodia and Rwanda where such behaviour continued on a huge scale. Only shown twice in the UK, let's hope that more audiences can have a chance to see this. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/28/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis The filmmakers show interviews with six mass-murderers from Sabra and Shatilla, whose faces are unidentifiable or blacked out.
      Director
      Monika Borgmann, Nina Menkes, Lokman Slim, Hermann Theissen
      Screenwriter
      Monika Borgmann, Hermann Theissen
      Production Co
      Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Lichtblick Film- und Fernsehproduktion
      Genre
      Documentary
      Original Language
      Arabic
      Runtime
      1h 38m