ואלס עם באשיר
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
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A Letter from a Time of War
Duration: 1 h 0 m | 1984
Filmed in Beirut in the Spring of 1984, in many ways a letter about warfront.
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