KARBALA
synopsis
April 2004, Iraq. During the holiday of Ashura, armed squads loyal to Shiite leader Muktada As-Sadr, supported by the Jihad movement, start an uprising in the Polish zone. The US command orders Polish troops to defend ‘City Hall,’ the headquarters of the local authorities and police loyal to the coalition troops, at all costs. The battle of Karbala during the Jihadist uprising becomes the largest military operation Polish troops have taken part in since the Second World War.
international title: | Karbala |
original title: | Karbala |
country: | Poland |
year: | 2015 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Krzysztof Łukaszewicz |
film run: | 110' |
release date: | PL 11/09/2015 |
screenplay: | Krzysztof Łukaszewicz |
cast: | Bartlomiej Topa, Antoni Królikowski, Leszek Lichota, Tomasz Schuchardt, Michał Zurawski, Piotr Żurawski, Hristo Shopov |
cinematography by: | Arkadiusz Tomiak |
film editing: | Michal Czarnecki |
art director: | Marek Warszewski |
music: | Cezary Skubiszewski |
producer: | Wlodzimierz Niderhaus |
production: | WFDiF - Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych, Telewizja Polska (TVP) - Agencja Filmowa, Agora S.A. |
backing: | Polish Film Institute |
distributor: | Next Film |