A Silent Traveler
MovieTitle | De zwijgende reiziger |
User score | 6 |
Release date | Nov 17, 1993 |
Genre | Drama, History |
Director | Ibrahim Selman |
Production country | Iraq, Netherlands |
Production companies | Dnu Film BV, Nederlandse Omroepstichting (NOS) |
Run time | 92 min. |
Debuting Iraq-born, Netherlands-based writer/director Ibrahim Selman starts out on docu ground, with a voiceover explaining his objectives and the film’s stand-in location, and recalling Kurdistan before the advent of war. He then shifts into narrative mode, with glimpses of life in a mountain village caught in the conflict between Iraqi military authorities and peshmergas (guerrilla freedom fighters).