Directors Sylvain Lepetit and Miyuki Droz Aramaki tell the story of what caused and what resulted from the Lebanese economic crisis that began in 2019 in their documentary “Casse du siècle au Liban” which will be broadcast on the Arte TV channel on Tuesday, June 18 at 8:55 p.m. French hour.
The movie, while showcasing the effects of the devaluation of the Lebanese pound and its consequences on people’s daily lives in Lebanon, asks itself this question: how did we get to that point? Or how come Lebanon was once called the “Switzerland of the Middle East”? The directors attempt to answer it through six families’ stories as observed by some specialists who monitored closely this crisis; those are Samir Geagea, Michel Aoun, Walid Joumblatt, Nabih Berry, Hassan Nasrallah and Rafic Hariri.
To achieve this goal Sylvain Lepetit and Miyuki Droz Aramaki take a step back on various episodes which progressively turned Lebanon from an ultra-liberal tax heaven into a “kleptocracy” fed by clientelism and where community leaders control over everyday life has never been larger. They also go back to several protest movements that started after October 17th, 2019 when the economic crisis broke out.
Among them Marie Claude Najm (law professor/former Minister for Justice); Charbel Nahas (economist/former Minister for Telecommunication & Labour/founder of Citizens within State); Karim Daher (tax lawyer); Sahar el-Attar (journalist/former Editor in chief Commerce du Levant); Riad Kobaissi (investigative journalist) or even Carla Eddé (historian). And two key actors of this crisis: Riad Salameh who served as governor at Banque du Liban from 1993 to 2023; and Walid Joumblatt who was the leader of PSP (Progressive Socialist Party) from 1977 until 2023.
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