10 Most Fascinating Films Produced By Brutal Governments

7. The Long Days

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The Long Days is a biographical film about Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, actually co-directed and edited by Terence Young who directed three James Bond Films (Dr No, Thunderball and From Russia with Love). 

Evidently the film included some Bondesque action to keep you on the edge of your seat from its six hour running time as it depicts the attempted assassination of Iraqi leader Abd al-Karim Qasim by revolutionaries of Saddam’s Ba’athist party. Saddam in the film is played by his cousin Saddam Kamal who defected from Iraq in 1995 only to return the next year and be executed. 

Few copies of the film appear to exist and all that remain are both of poor quality and entirely in Arabic, although what seems to be a portion of the film can be found on YouTube if you fancy spending half of your waking hours watching Saddam Hussein dodge around the Iraqi countryside on grainy video.

 
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