Hostage The Bachar Tapes English Version (2001)

Hostage The Bachar Tapes English Version is an experimental documentary about The Western Hostage Crisis The crisis refers to the abduction and detention of Westerners in Lebanon in the 80s and early 90s by Islamic militants This episode directly and indirectly consumed Lebanese US French and British political and public life and precipitated a number of highprofile political scandals like the IranContra affair in the US This period is examined through the testimony of Souheil Bachar who was the only Arab to have been detained with the American hostages kidnapped in Beirut in the 1980s In 1999 Bachar collaborated with The Atlas Group to produce 53 videotapes about his captivity Tapes 17 and 31 are the only two tapes Bachar makes available outside of Lebanon In the tapes Bachar addresses the cultural textual and sexual aspects of his detention with the Americans