Dawn of the World
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Original title | Dawn of the World |
Country of production |
France Germany |
original language | Arabic |
Publishing year | 2008 |
length | 95 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 12 |
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Director | Abbas Fahdel |
script | Abbas Fahdel |
production | ADR Productions 27 Films Production |
music | Jürgen Knieper |
camera | Gilles Porte |
cut | Sylvie Gadmer |
occupation | |
Dawn of the World ( L'Aube du monde ; Arabic فجر العالم, DMG faǧr al-ʿālam ) is a feature film by the Iraqi film director Abbas Fahdel from 2008.
action
In the marshland of Mesopotamia, at the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris in southern Iraq, lies the biblical Garden of Eden. Mastour and Zahra live here, two Iraqi Marsh Arabs whose happy wedding is interrupted by the outbreak of the Iraq-Iran war. Mastour is sent to the front, where he meets Riyadh, a young conscript from Baghdad with whom he becomes a close friend. When Mastour was fatally wounded, he made his comrade and friend Riyadh on his deathbed promise to marry the wife he was left behind. This is how he wants to prevent a stranger from marrying her ...
background information
Most of the Marsh Arabs (Arab al-Ahwar) in southern Iraq, also known as Ma'dan, are followers of the Shiite direction of Islam. In the first Gulf War they were courted by the Saddam Hussein regime as fighters in the war against Iran. After the second Gulf War in 1991, the March Arabs rose against Saddam's regime - their uprising was brutally suppressed. Marshes and river arms of the settlement area of the Ma'dan and their unique cultural landscape were gradually dried out systematically. According to various estimates, only 20,000 - 50,000 of the original 500,000 inhabitants of the marshland still live. The rest were either executed or evicted. Parts of the area's flora and fauna have been destroyed.
Awards
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Festival international du film asiatique de Vesoul , 2009:
- Audience award
- NETPAC price
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Center national de la cinématographie :
- Best script
Web links
- Dawn of the World in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website (English)
- Official website (French)
- pressbook (English; PDF file; 778 kB)
- photos
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Approval for Dawn of the World . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 846 K).