Back to Babylon (film)
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| Back to Babylon | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Abbas Fahdel |
| Produced by | Agat Films & co |
| Music by | Sami Kaftan |
| Cinematography | Abbas Fahdel, Amer Alwan |
| Editing by | Sylvie Gadmer |
| Distributed by | Doc & Co |
| Release date(s) | 2002 |
| Running time | 52 min |
| Language | Arabic |
| Back To Babylon Official website | |
Back To Babylon is a documentary film directed by the Iraqi film director Abbas Fahdel in 2002.
[edit] Synopsis
Back in his home town of Babylon after 25 years of exile, the Iraqi-born director Abbas Fahdel asks himself: "What has become of my friends? What has life here made of them? What would life here have made of me had I not decided to follow the course of destiny elsewhere?" In his search and inquiries, his encounters with the friends of his youth, it is the situation today in Iraq that is revealed through the camera's eye: the ravages of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship, the after-effects of the Iran-Iraq war and the Gulf war, the tragic consequences of the embargo imposed by the United Nations.
[edit] Note
“By allowing destiny to take me elsewhere, I escaped the years of war and poverty that hit the country. After 25 years of exile, haunted by the guilt often felt by survivors, I returned to Iraq to make peace with that part of myself that remained forever attached to my homeland.” Abbas Fahdel, in Back to Babylon.
