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March 2003. As Bush declares 'the day of liberation is near,' Saddam instructs most of his family to flee to Syria; only Uday, Qusay and grandson Mustapha remain. For his safety, Saddam goes into ...
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Saddam, frustrated step-son of a sadistic peasant, was the deputy of the Iraqi president, number two in a revolutionary regime that modernized the former British-protected kingdom. When his faction ...
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May 1995. Iraq is crippled by UN sanctions for refusing to comply with weapons inspections. When inspectors are finally admitted, a cat-and-mouse game begins. In charge of the subterfuge is Qusay, ...
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| Igal Naor | ... | Saddam Hussein 4 episodes, 2008 | |
| Shohreh Aghdashloo | ... | Sajida Khairallah Talfah 4 episodes, 2008 | |
| Makram Khoury | ... | Tariq Aziz 4 episodes, 2008 | |
| Philip Arditti | ... | Uday Hussein 4 episodes, 2008 | |
| Mounir Margoum | ... | Qusay Hussein 4 episodes, 2008 | |
| Agni Scott | ... | Raghad Hussein 4 episodes, 2008 | |
| Amr Waked | ... | Hussein Kamel 3 episodes, 2008 | |
| Uri Gavriel | ... | Ali Hassan Al Majid 3 episodes, 2008 | |
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Christine Stephen-Daly | ... | Samira Shahbandar / ... 3 episodes, 2008 |
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Saïd Amadis | ... | Adnan Khairallah / ... 2 episodes, 2008 |
| Amber Rose Revah | ... | Hala Hussein 2 episodes, 2008 | |
| Shivani Ghai | ... | Rana Hussein 2 episodes, 2008 | |
| Daniel Lundh | ... | Saddam Kamel 2 episodes, 2008 | |
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A mini-series that explores the inner workings of Saddam Hussein's family and his relationship with his closest advisers.
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This four-part mini-series grips you from the outset. Yigal Naor's portrayal of the young Saddam is brilliant, seizing power brutally but always with a purpose behind his brutality. This contrasts with the mindless, purposeless brutality of his elder son Uday (Philip Arditti), which comes through in the 2nd and 3rd episodes.
The mini-series' structure, taking four key years in Saddam's life over 24 years, is managed extremely effectively, although one consequence is that some of the best-known incidents of his reign of terror have to be omitted.
The character of each family member develops across the episodes and the overall sense of an all-pervading reign of terror comes over very powerfully.
My main criticism is of the final episode, almost elegiac with a mellow Saddam on the run with a consequent loss of tension and momentum. Although I suppose that, as we all know what happened to him right from the start, this is probably inevitable. But well worth watching and superbly acted by everyone.