Saddam Hussein: The Master of Baghdad = Saddam Hussein - le maître de Bagdad (2002)
Ten years after the Gulf war Irak, still submitted to an embargo, is ruined, nevertheless the façades of the buildings in Baghdad or any crossroads, squares and houses in the smallest villages of Iraq are still displaying the tens of thousands of giant portraits glorifying Saddam Hussein. This stereotyped image of a monolithic an unfathomable tyrant, will be the starting point of our film. This will first help us to show how simplistic this image is, then we will analyse Saddam Hussein’s more complex personality hidden behind this mask and his relationship with power. We don’t want to smoother the features of this too obviously wicked character, but we want to remind some verities, which more than often remain concealed and that history -and the history of Iraq in particular- can teach us. Dictators or dictatorships don’t come into existence spontaneously. No one was ever born a dictator, but became one provided special circumstances helped him to do so.
Primary Title
- Saddam Hussein: The Master of Baghdad = Saddam Hussein - le maître de Bagdad
Date Broadcast
- Tuesday 10 November 2009
Release Year
- 2002
Start Time
- 21 : 30
Finish Time
- 23 : 00
Duration
- 90:00
Channel
- Maori Television
Broadcaster
- Maori Television Service
Programme Description
- Ten years after the Gulf war Irak, still submitted to an embargo, is ruined, nevertheless the façades of the buildings in Baghdad or any crossroads, squares and houses in the smallest villages of Iraq are still displaying the tens of thousands of giant portraits glorifying Saddam Hussein. This stereotyped image of a monolithic an unfathomable tyrant, will be the starting point of our film. This will first help us to show how simplistic this image is, then we will analyse Saddam Hussein’s more complex personality hidden behind this mask and his relationship with power. We don’t want to smoother the features of this too obviously wicked character, but we want to remind some verities, which more than often remain concealed and that history -and the history of Iraq in particular- can teach us. Dictators or dictatorships don’t come into existence spontaneously. No one was ever born a dictator, but became one provided special circumstances helped him to do so.
Classification
- PGR
Owning Collection
- Chapman Archive
Broadcast Platform
- Television
Languages
- English
- Arabic
Captioning Languages
- English
Captions
Live Broadcast
- No
Rights Statement
- Made for the University of Auckland's educational use as permitted by the Screenrights Licensing Agreement.
Subjects
- Documentary films--Iraq
- Hussein, Saddam--1937-2006
- Heads of state--Iraq--Biography
- Iraq--Politics and government
Genres
- Biography
- Documentary
Contributors
- Saddam Hussein (Subject)
- Michel Vuillermet (Director)
- Les Films du Village (Production Unit)
- Jean Pierre Beaurenaut (Director)
- Planet Group Entertainment (Production Unit)
Subjects
- Documentary films--Iraq
- Hussein, Saddam--1937-2006
- Heads of state--Iraq--Biography
- Iraq--Politics and government