The Young Man Was, Part 1: United Red Army (2011)
Directed by Naeem Mohaiemen
Run Time - 70 min. |
Countries - Bangladesh |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis
September 1977. The Japanese man speaks in halting English; the Bangladeshi negotiator, with the clipped confidence of an army officer. A color scheme suggests order in the exchange: green, red, and the occasional white. The Japanese Red Army had attached to the Palestinian cause, and through that to an idea of global pan-Arabism. The hostage terrain was not an "Islamic Republic," as the hijackers thought, but a turbulent new country ricocheting between polarities and imploding in the process.