Baghdad Outside Baghdad

Baghdad Outside Baghdad (2013)

HistoryDrama

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.

Director: Kassem Hawal

Casts

	Nizar Al-Samarayi as
	Hind Kamil as
	ثمين طعمة as
	Falah mohson as
	Rasha al Kinani as
	Asrar Nasir as

Crew