Baghdad Outside Baghdad

05/01/2013

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1hr 25min

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History

,Drama

STORY

Baghdad Outside Baghdad is based on the Gilgamesh Sumerian legend, set in the first decades of the 20th century and told with a realistic and human hold. The story portraits six different stories that in different ways reflects the intellectual and cultural life in Iraq in that period, a period that fostered great poets and singers. The film presents six figures from this period through easy going as well as melancholic perspectives, while they live as strangers in their homeland and slowly move towards death. Gilgamesh is constantly present in the story, and as set in the historical epic portrayal, watchful and fearful of the death. Baghdad Outside Baghdad is outermost a historical portrait of Iraq.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Nizar Al-Samarayi
  • Hind Kamil
  • ثمين طعمة
  • Falah mohson
  • Rasha al Kinani

    Director

  • Kassem Hawal

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Iraqi Cinema and Theater Foundation

    Production Countries

  • Iraq

LANGUAGES

  • Arabic