Born Out of Death
1981 · Monica Maurer · 9 min · Short · RFA, Palestina
Spoken in English
Subtitled in English and Portuguese
The West-German director Monica Maurer made a number of important films for the PLO. The Israeli airstrikes against Beirut on 17 July 1981 killed 350 people, including a pregnant woman whose baby could be rescued from her torn-up womb. Maurer shows the people’s suffering and pain, their victimhood. She addresses the…