WE WERE COMMUNISTS | FUIMOS COMUNISTAS
Trazando los entrecruzados destinos de camaradas que estuvieron una vez unidos por compartir una afi liaci贸n ideol贸gica, y que todav铆a permanecen fuertemente unidos como amigos, 鈥淔uimos Comunistas鈥 es un desinhibido examen del legado de la Guerra Civil del L铆bano. Cuatro hombres cuentan sus historias del campo de batalla, los sue帽os rotos, y su eventual desilusi贸n a la luz de la crisis pol铆tica actual. Art铆stica y pol铆ticamente audaz, incisiva y sensible, la pel铆cula presenta al desnudo la desalentadora realidad del fracturado panorama del L铆bano.
Tracing the intersecting destinies of comrades who were once bound by a shared ideological affi liation and who remain tightly knit friends, We Were Communists is an uninhibited examination of the legacy of Lebanon鈥檚 civil war. Four men recount their battlefi eld stories, broken dreams, and eventual disillusionment in light of the country鈥檚 ongoing political crises. At once artistically and politically audacious, incisive and tender, the fi lm lays bare the daunting reality of Lebanon鈥檚 fractured landscape.
MAHER ABI Samra naci贸 en Beirut, L铆bano, en 1965. Estudi贸 cine en La F茅mis de Par铆s y trabaj贸 como fot贸grafo para peri贸dicos y agencias de noticias. Dirigi贸 numerosos cortos y mediometrajes documentales, entre ellos Le Syndrome du retour (1994), B芒tir sur des vagues (1995), Femmes du Hezbollah (2000), Inhabitance of Shatila Hospital (2001) y Rond-Point Chatila (2004).
MAHER ABI Samra borned in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1965. Maher Abi Samra attended film school at La F茅mis in Paris and worked as a photographer for newspapers and news agencies. He directed several short and mediumlength documentary films, such as Le Syndrome du retour (1994), B芒tir sur des vagues (1995), Femmes du Hezbollah (2000), Inhabitance of Shatila Hospital (2001) and Rond-Point Chatila (2004).
