Greetings to Kamal Jumblatt (1977)

ALL 01/01/1977 (ar) Documentary 57 Min
  • Release
    01/01/1977
  • Production
    Lebanese National Movement, The
  • Rotten tomato
    60%
  • Original title
    Tahiya li Kamal Jumblatt
  • Original language
    ar
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

Tribute to the Druze Kamal Jumblatt, Minister of Economy and Agriculture (1946) and founder of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) in 1949. He was one of the architects of the departure of President Bechara el-Khoury (1952), before playing a major role in the events of 1958. From 1960 to 1964, Kamal Jumblatt assumed, under the presidency of Fouad Chehab, various ministerial functions . . After the conflict of June 1967, he gradually approached the Palestinian organizations. In 1969 he became Minister of the Interior; in August 1970, he supported the election of Soleiman Frangié as President of the Republic. Following the Lebanese-Palestinian clashes of May 1973, he took sides against the head of state, established himself as the leader of the National Movement in 1975 and engaged in a revolutionary armed struggle against the Lebanese Front. Hostile to Syria's intervention in Lebanon, he broke with it (March 1976). He was assassinated near a Syrian checkpoint in 1977.

  1. Maroun Bagdadi

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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    Himself (archive footage)

  2. Yasser Arafat

    Himself

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Greetings to Kamal Jumblatt (1977) 57 Min

ALL 01/01/1977 (ar)
Documentary
  • Release 01/01/1977
  • Production
    Lebanese National Movement, The
  • Original title Tahiya li Kamal Jumblatt
  • ar
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Tribute to the Druze Kamal Jumblatt, Minister of Economy and Agriculture (1946) and founder of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) in 1949. He was one of the architects of the departure of President Bechara el-Khoury (1952), before playing a major role in the events of 1958. From 1960 to 1964, Kamal Jumblatt assumed, under the presidency of Fouad Chehab, various ministerial functions . . After the conflict of June 1967, he gradually approached the Palestinian organizations. In 1969 he became Minister of the Interior; in August 1970, he supported the election of Soleiman Frangié as President of the Republic. Following the Lebanese-Palestinian clashes of May 1973, he took sides against the head of state, established himself as the leader of the National Movement in 1975 and engaged in a revolutionary armed struggle against the Lebanese Front. Hostile to Syria's intervention in Lebanon, he broke with it (March 1976). He was assassinated near a Syrian checkpoint in 1977.

  1. Maroun Bagdadi

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer