'House Of Saddam' HBO Films
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HOUSE OF SADDAM offers a fresh perspective on the dictator, his relationships and his actions behind closed doors, retelling events from inside the very heart of the regime. The international cast includes Igal Naor ("Rendition," "Munich") as Saddam Hussein; Oscar® nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo ("House of Sand and Fog") as Saddam's first wife, Sajida; Philip Arditti ("10 Days to War") as Saddam's oldest son, Uday; Said Taghmaoui ("Vantage Point," "The Kite Runner") as Saddam's half-brother, Barzan Ibrahim; and Christine Stephen-Daly ("Casualty," "Cutting It") as Saddam's mistress and subsequent second wife, Samira.
"In the history of Iraq and in the world of Saddam Hussein, details are often blurred by politics, propaganda and pure self-interest," explains co-director, co-writer and executive producer Alex Holmes. "We set out to talk to as many people as we could who had known Saddam first-hand in order to piece together a picture of what life was like inside Saddam's ever-shrinking inner circle. We spoke to his allies and to his adversaries; to politicians, exiles, palace insiders, his cooks, his menservants, friends of the Hussein family and government ministers. We interviewed people inside and outside Iraq.
"We cross-referenced these interviews with pictures and home movies left behind by the Hussein family, some produced for propaganda purposes, but others more candid, salvaged from the regime's destroyed palaces. And we accessed the partial trail of documents that emerged following the fall of the secretive and obsessively bureaucratic regime. The process took three years and involved a team of three researchers, all Arabic speakers. What emerges is a distinct and independent portrait of a dictator and his center of power."
Beginning in 1979, when Saddam seized control of Iraq in a bloody coup, the miniseries details the impact of his political ambitions and his belief in his own historical significance on his most trusted advisors, closest friends and family members - and on Saddam himself. Within the walls of his opulent palaces and on the streets of Iraq, respect and love are interwoven with fear as Saddam exerts his dominance. He maintains power for almost 25 years in the face of mounting domestic and international pressures, demonstrating an amazing aptitude for survival. Eventually, however, the House of Saddam begins to crumble, and as its leader becomes increasingly isolated from the international community and those nearest to him, his grip on reality and on power fades.
It's called 'House of Saddam' and it's an HBO film.
So it's about the smurfs and how they are all blue.
serioulsy, whats the problem? I'm sorry, I fugured the title of this thread was enough and I didnt have to post the synopsis.
do you think it'll go into WHY they live in mushrooms?? and why there's only one Chic??:D
well apparently they live in shroomz (majic mushrooms) and 'Gargamel' or 'Gargasmell' as the smurfs call him thinks that by eating the smurfs he will get the greatest 'trip' of them all.
But some say that the smurfs are just a Gargamel illusion from all the shroomz he has eaten over the years. always manifesting as tiny blue creatures.
But recent history shows that they do exist and were attacked by the US military http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MAYrF1PDks
(Byrnzie..this new link is video evidence of the american bombing of smurf land)
I thought it was because they drink Smurfing beer, which doesn't get you drunk. I'd be blue too if beer didn't get me drunk. Thank God I don't live in the U.S.
I wholeheartedly agree.
Classic! You think they found oil there? Or is this part of the whole war on drugs?
Worth watching. Pretty good!!