United Red Army (The Young Man Was, Part I)

Overview

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. Instead of being the willing platform for the Japanese Red Army's ideas of ""Third World revolution,"" the actual Third World hit back in unexpected ways, turning the hijackers into helpless witnesses. An eight-year-old watches the television screen with growing confusion-the screen shows an unmoving control tower for hours on end, and he wants his favorite show to start again.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

March 5, 2011

Original language

English

Countries

Bangladesh

Director

Naeem Mohaiemen

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt2076369