Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection ( Vergiss Bagdad )

Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Vergiss Bagdad
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )
Multi-lingual ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
112 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2002 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Samir

Written By:
Samir

Actors:
Shimon Ballas ..... Himself
Moshe Houri ..... Himself
Sami Michael ..... Himself
Samir Naqqash ..... Himself
Ella Shohat ..... Herself

Synopsis:

Samir, the Swiss son of an Iraqi Arab Communist, travels to Tel Aviv to talk to older Iraqi Jews, his father's comrades, about "what it's like to become the enemy of your own past." Grainy video and gimmicky editing give this documentary an amateurish feel, but Samir's charming, rueful interlocutors shine through. Secular intellectuals, they praise the vanished cosmopolitan Iraq of their youth and bite the Zionist hand that brought them "from a palace to a tent," as Moshe Houri, a former kiosk owner, says. Their experience of anti-Mizrachi (Middle Eastern Jew) discrimination, and their leftist rejection of Zionism, place them outside Israel's heroic national story, shown through chipper British newsreels and popular Israeli films.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 08 October, 2008.