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Hundred Faces for a Single Day

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Rejecting all propagandistic or narrative convention, Ghazi combined documentary and abstract sequences with a series of discontinuous plot lines to organize a stinging attack on the bourgeois decadence of Beirut's political milieu.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1972-01-02

Runtime: 70 mins

Director: Christian Ghazi

Writer: Christian Ghazi, Rafiq Hajjar

Spoken language: العربية

Genres: Documentary

Original title: Hundred Faces for a Single Day

Production Companies: Palestinian Film Foundation

Production Countries: Lebanon

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