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APRÈS LA CHUTE

by Hiner Saleem

synopsis

The end of Saddam Hussein’s regime. Kurdish exiles celebrate the best day of their lives and Azad organises a big party for family and friends who arrive bearing food and drink to prepare a feast of dishes and desserts. Kurdish television broadcasts non-stop footage of general jubilation, as the guests sing, dance, and drink. Gradually, inflamed by alcohol, old quarrels re-emerge between Sunnites and Shiites, Kurds and Arabs, believers and atheists, and threaten to spoil the party. The arrival of an old friend, Ghassan, doesn’t help: he has spent the night at the Iraqi embassy, where he discovered that Azad’s brother has been betraying them, collaborating with the regime…

original title: Après la chute
country: France, Germany
sales agent: The Party Film Sales
year: 2009
genre: fiction
directed by: Hiner Saleem
screenplay: Hiner Saleem
cast: Nazmi Kirik, Yildiz Gültekin, Fehmi Mohammad Salim, Marisa Commandeur, Nisti Sterk, Abdulselam Kilgi, Ferhad Feqi
cinematography by: Andréas Sinanos, Emre Erkmen
film editing: Morgane Spacagna
costumes designer: Claudia Rössler
music: Carnewa Suleyman
production: Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo, Mîtosfilm

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