Credited cast: | |||
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Khaled Umar Harah | ... | Self - volunteer rescue worker |
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Batul | ... | Self - Khalid Umar Harah's daughter |
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Mahmoud | ... | Self - volunteer rescue worker |
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Abu Umar | ... | Self |
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Abu Husain | ... | Self |
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Abu Walid | ... | Self |
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Abu Omar | ... | Self |
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Isra | ... | Self - Khalid Umar Harah's daughter |
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Abu Yusuf | ... | Self |
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Ahmad | ... | Self - Mahmoud's brother |
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Abu Sabih | ... | Self |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Subhi Alhussen | ... | Self - volunteer rescue worker |
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Shabab Badawi | ... | Self - White Helmet worker |
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Fawzi Barghot | ... | Self - White Helmet worker |
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Hasan Hannan | ... | Self - White Helmet worker |
After five years of war in Syria, Aleppo's remaining residents prepare themselves for a siege. Khalid, Subhi and Mahmoud, founding members of The White Helmets, have remained in the city to help their fellow citizens-and experience daily life, death, struggle and triumph in a city under fire.
"Last Men in Aleppo", is a shattering Danish/Syrian documentary about the Syrian Civil War that should leave you in anger and tears after viewing it.
Beginning as a film editor, Syrian writer/director Firas Fayvad previously had made documentaries for television, his most famous being "On the Other Side", the making of which resulted in Fayyad's arrest and torture for nine months between 2011 and 2012. But even that has not achieved the level of international fame "Last Men in Aleppo" has brought him, for it documents the efforts of the White Helmets, an organization consisting of ordinary citizens whose purpose is to save civilians (especially children) who are buried under the rubble from continuous bombings by the Soviet Union unabashedly targeting apartment buildings, hospitals and non-military establishments.
What is so shocking about this film is the way it plants the viewer in the middle of the violence as it is happening, and from the point of view of the heroic rescuers. There are deliberate lulls in the film in which we live in the houses with the families of the White Helmets, but that just makes the inhuman tragedy even more shocking when the violence comes. This is a film impossible to forget once seen.