Hundred Faces for a Single Day

1972 | 70 minutes | 5.0 ★ (5)

Hundred Faces for a Single Day
  • Overview

    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.

  • Release Date

    02 January 1972

  • DirectingChristian Ghazi
  • Budget

    $0.00

  • Revenue

    $0.00

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