Back to Babylon (film)

Back to Babylon
Directed byAbbas Fahdel
Produced byBlanche Guichou
CinematographyAbbas Fahdel
Amer Alwan
Edited bySylvie Gadmer
Music bySami Kaftan
Distributed byDoc & Co
Release date
  • 2002 (2002)
Running time
52 minutes
CountriesFrance
Iraq
LanguageArabic

Back to Babylon (Arabic: العودة إلى بابل, French: Retour à Babylone) is a documentary film directed by the Iraqi-French film director Abbas Fahdel.

Synopsis

Back in his home town of Babylon after a long exile, the Iraqi-born director Abbas Fahdel asks himself: "What has become of my friends? What has life here made of them? What would life here have made of me had I not decided to follow the course of destiny elsewhere?" In his search and inquiries, his encounters with the friends of his youth, it is the situation today in Iraq that is revealed through the camera's eye: the ravages of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship, the after-effects of the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and the embargo imposed by the United Nations.

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