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Hiding Saddam Hussein (Norway, Iraq)
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Hiding Saddam Hussein (Norway, Iraq)

Hiding Saddam Hussein (Norway, Iraq)

11/18/2024
Mon 3:30 PM
The Culver Theater - Auditorium 6
9500 Culver Blvd, Culver City
from $10.00

Genre: Documentary

Country: Norway, Iraq

Year: 2023

Duration: 93 mins

Director: Halkawt Mustafa

Language(s): Arabic

Subtitles: English

Producer: Anders Hereid, Janne Hjeltnes, Halkawt Mustafa

Principal Cast: Alaa Namuq Jasim Al-Doori

Synopsis

Eighteen years ago, the invading US forces were searching Iraq for its deposed president, Saddam Hussein, who had seemingly disappeared into thin air. He was finally discovered in the town of Al-Dawr, living in a bunker his chauffeur and bodyguard dug between the date trees in his orchard. Alaa Namiq, now 50, hid Saddam for a staggering 235 days before the Americans tracked him down in 2003, executing him three years later. Halkawt Mustafa persuaded Namiq to tell his story for the first time in this startling documentary, which took 10 years to make and was necessarily shrouded in so much secrecy that even the crew did not know the real subject of the film they were making.

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Hiding Saddam Hussein (Norway, Iraq)
The Culver Theater - Auditorium 6
11/18/2024
Mon 3:30 PM
The Culver Theater - Auditorium 6
9500 Culver Blvd, Culver City
from $10.00

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