Baghdad Outside Baghdad (movie)

Baghdad Outside Baghdad (movie)

بغداد خارج بغداد
  • Production country: Iraq
  • Producer: Kassem Hawal
  • Production companies: Iraqi Cinema and Theater Foundation
  • Genre: History, Drama
  • Release date: 5/1/2013
  • Run time: 85 min.

Movie description

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.

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Nizar Al-Samarayi

Nizar Al-Samarayi

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Hind Kamil

Hind Kamil

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ثمين طعمة

ثمين طعمة

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Falah mohson

Falah mohson

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Rasha al Kinani

Rasha al Kinani

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