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Category:
History & Current Affairs

Keywords:
History, War, Politics, Iraq


Producer(s): POINT DU JOUR AZ MEDIA

Coproducer(s)/co-financing:
ARTE G.E.I.E., RTL--TV

Music: Pierre-alexandre MATI

Length:  1x52

Format:  One-off

Original version: French

Versions available: English: overdub / International: overdub

Nationality: France

Year: 2003

Rights: world excl. Germany

Support(s):  SD – Digital 4/3 , SD - Beta SP

Collection: IRAQ WAR

OUR FRIEND SADDAM

Director(s): Antonia RADOS – Writer(s): Antonia RADOS   Contact Contact   Download Print page

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January 2003: One of the reasons put forward to justify a war with Iraq, is the fact that the country is still in possession of weapons of mass destruction. The film "Our friend Saddam", is to get an answer to a simple but embarrassing question : who made it possible for Saddam Hussein to acquire these weapons ? Or even more precisely : who helped giving Saddam Hussein access to nucelar, chemical and biological armement technology, on such a scale ?

"Our Friend Saddam" investigates in the Iraq, in France, Germany, the Unites States and Israel and bases itself on exclusive interviews with political leaders such as Tarek Aziz, François Poncet, with US senators as well as the originators of the Iraqi nucelar programme, Hamza and Sharistani who live in exile today. Further key interviewees and a selection of archival documents -many of them hitherto unseen - completes the enquiry.

Festivals and Awards:
* Special Prize of the Jury - FIGRA (France, 2004)
* Romy Schneider Prize (Austria, 2003)

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