Greetings to Kamal Jumblatt

Greetings to Kamal Jumblatt (1977)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 1977-01-01
  • User Rating: 6/10 from 6 ratings
  • Runtime: 0h 57min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Lebanese National Movement, The
  • Production Country: Lebanon, France, Canada
  • Director: Maroun Bagdadi
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Summary

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.

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  • Kamal Joumblatt

    as Himself (archive footage)
  • Yasser Arafat

    as Himself
Crew Hassan Naami Cinematography
Writing Maroun Bagdadi Writer
Directing Maroun Bagdadi Director

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