BOY FROM LEBANON (DVD/WS/DD 5.1/ENG-SUB)

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• Actors: Teufik Jallab, Younesse Boudache, Salah Teskouk, Fatiha Cheriguene, Agathe de La Fontaine
• Director: Gilles de Maistre
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language (Original Language): Arabic
• Language (Original Language): French
• Language (Subtitled): English
• Region Code: 1
• Release Date: 2007-02-13
• Running Time: 90 minutes
• Theatrical Release Date: 1994

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Reviewed on 2008-04-07 well done movie Boy from Lebanon gives a great in-site into what is happening in Iraq,Iran, Lebanon, Israel, and other countries. Much can be learned in protecting your child from such actions. These kids are deprived of any normal childhood for the sake of religious and political gain.This is a must see for parents.

Reviewed on 2008-02-09 Great movie, great child actors I loved the actors, especially the two children. The story is good, worth watching. I don't understand the tags, there's not so much as a shirtless scene anywhere in the movie, everyone is fully dressed for winter in Europe, no gay or romantic scenes, and I wouldn't call it coming-of-age they are really young. But overall well filmed & worth watching.

Reviewed on 2007-04-07 great movie A very emotive movie great thriller it will open your eyes to how amazingly screwed up some people are. I mean, really, really screwed up in a monumental fashion.

Reviewed on 2007-03-21 Can we educate children to hate and kill? Absolutely. A must see film about the horror of child terrorists and soldiers...not just for society at large but for these young adults as well. The film opens with a boy being sold by his Lebanese parents to become a child solider who is indoctrinated (as Number 3) to hate Jews and Gentiles. He becomes an excellent soldier for the cause of hate and is then flown to France to fulfill a mission to assassinate the President of France. A true story. Filmed as a thriller - documentary style - the master terrorists have everything planned to the last detail but this...they failed to consider the impact of a friendship this young boy develops for a Parisian boy his own age. The most touching scene is the gentleness in which the French boy comforts the young soldier who is deeply troubled by nightmares in losing his parents and his innocence. And the most haunting line of the film, spoken by the child soldier - "what's it like being a boy."

Reviewed on 2007-02-27 Children and War "The Boy from Lebanon" Children and War Amos Lassen and Cinema Pride Picture This Entertainment has developed an entire genre of film with its coming of age movies. This month they have released the striking film "The Boy from Lebanon", a beautiful French film that deals with the problem of children being recruited to fight adult wars. Djilali lost his father to Israeli killers and he himself was sold to terrorists and is being trained to be an assassin. He learns to shoot, to hate, to fight, and most important of all, to be a soldier. He is brainwashed to the point that he is anxious to kill unmercifully. The terrorists attempt to smuggle him to Paris to commit an extremely high level assassination and it is there that he meets Karim, a young Arab who lives in the very poor Arab sector of the City of Lights. It is Karim's job to help Djilali blend into the population until he receives the order to kill. Karim knows nothing of the planned assassination and like all boys his age is only interested in eating hamburgers, listening to rap music and playing on his skateboard. The two boys become very close friends and take an oath to remain so. Things begin to change when the execution is about to take place when Djilali must deal with his own introspection and his own moment of truth. This is a beautiful film if you can take the nature of the subject matter. Some of it is quite shocking especially the scenes in which the youth is brainwashed into believing that his deed will be considered martyrdom and that Allah will be good to him. I had some of the same feelings of disgust that I had when I watched "Jesus Camp". The idea that a child could be trained to take a life is sickening but the reality is that this is being done as I type this review and almost every other day. Because I found this film offensive personally does not detract from its worth however. The cinematography is fantastic and the acting is beautifully taken care of by the two kinds, Teufik Jaliab and Younesse Boudache. The credit for the film goes unquestionably to director Gilles De Maistre who has managed to give us an incredible look at something most of us have never considered. That I found it offensive should not take any credit away from the beauty of the film. The offense that I felt is due to the fact that I have been personally involved in the Middle East War and seeing children being used to do a job that even grown men should not do offended me greatly even though I know it is happening. This is a film that must be seen if you want to understand the nature of the conflict and the nature of terrorism. We should all want to know what goes on in the mind of hired assassins as we live in a world where they are not caught and continue to commit crimes against humanity on an almost daily basis. Here is a real eye opener which regardless of the subject matter should be on everyone's "To See" list.

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