Persona Non Grata

Jun 5, 2003

1h 30m

★ 5.4

Overview

2003 documentary film produced by Oliver Stone for the HBO series America Undercover about the conflict in occupied Palestine. He speaks with Ehud Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu, former prime ministers of Israel, Yasser Arafat, late president of the Palestinian National Authority, and various Palestinian activists resisting the oppression of the zionist regime.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Wild Bunch

Ixtlan Productions

Morena Films

Rule 8

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Cast

Self

Yasser Arafat

Self

Shimon Peres

Self

Oliver Stone

Self

Ehud Barak

Self

Jasan Yosef

Self

Benjamin Netanyahu

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0.0

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