Dawn of the World
(2008)
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Dawn of the World
(2008)
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Karim Saleh | ... |
Riad
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| Hafsia Herzi | ... |
Zahra
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| Hiam Abbass | ... |
Mastour's mother
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Sayed Ragab | ... |
Hadji Noh
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Waleed Abou El Magd | ... |
Mastour
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Mahmoud Nagui | ... |
Zingi
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Mohamed Ali Keshta | ... |
Abou Ali
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Nabil El Deeb | ... |
Cheik Jassim
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Soheil Abdel Wahab | ... |
Iraqi officer
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Mostafa Wagih | ... |
Hussein
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Injy Ashour | ... |
Zingi's wife
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Mina Soheil | ... |
Zahra - child
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Amr Ossama | ... |
Mastour - child
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Abou Baker Nounou | ... |
American soldier
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Reem Rafaa | ... |
Oum Zoheir
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The Mesopotamian Marshes, at the delta of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, in the south of Iraq. This is where Mastour and Zahra grow up... See full synopsis »
A robust art film directed with an unquestionable talent, Dawn of the World is a journey through the unexplored Marshlands of Iraq and a moving war film about the tragedy of the Marsh Arabs (everybody knows about the Golf War, but nobody knows about the massacre of the Marsh Arabs!) The story is harrowing and the presentation is graphic. Powerful material, powerfully rendered. The director alternates the horrors of war with occasional fairy tale-like images; together they imbue the film with an unapologetically disturbing quality that persists long after the credits roll. One must not describe the sequence at the end. It must unfold as a surprise. It is unutterably depressing, because history can never undo itself, and is with us forever.