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Once upon a time in Beirut: History of a Star

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Jocelyn Saab was a passionate cineaste her entire life and initiated a project to rebuild the Lebanese film archive at the start of the 90s. This entailed collecting prints and fragments of works from Lebanese film history over a period of years, which were in a desolate archival state due to the civil war. Saab’s second feature emerged from this project, weaving together a fictional plot and archive material in unique fashion to create likely one of the most beautiful declarations of love to cinema as a medium for dreaming. Two young women named Yasmine (Michèle Tyan) and Leïla (Myrna Maakaron), one Muslim, the other Christian, would like to recreate their home city of Beirut’s legendary former beauty. By coincidence, they gain possession of two film rolls that they have screened for them by old cinema owner Farouk. In a wonderful, half run-down movie theater, he carries them off with his stories and the projected images into a time when Beirut was a “film star”, location for French colonial romances and spy films as well as for shoots by Werner Schroeter, Gordon Hessler, and Henry Barakat.
(Arsenal Kino)

Credits

Original title: Kanya ya ma kan, Beyrouth
RL/F/D 1995, 104 min
Genre: Drama
Director: Jocelyn Saab
Author: Philippe Paringaux, Roland-Pierre Paringaux
Distributor: Unbekannt
Cast: Emile Accar, Pierre Chamassian, Abou El Abed

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Screenings

  • OV Original version
  • OmU Original with German subtitles
  • OmeU Original with English subtitles

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