Dawn of the World

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Movie
Original title Dawn of the World
Country of production France
Germany
original language Arabic
Publishing year 2008
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
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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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Approval for Dawn of the World . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 846 K).