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Long Days, is a 1980 Iraqi movie, directed by Tawfiq Saleh and Terence Young, and starring Saddam Kamel, Nada Siham, Mohsin al-Azzawi. with a runtime of 150 minutes.
Long Days is an Iraqi historical drama film that reconstructs the dramatic events surrounding the failed assassination attempt against Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Kassem in Baghdad in 1959. Following the botched attack, the underground revolutionaries go into hiding as the secret police launch sweeping house-to-house searches across the city's neighborhoods. Among those on the run is the young Saddam Hussein, decades before he would rise to become president of Iraq. The film blends political intrigue with historical reconstruction, offering a tense, document-grounded account of a pivotal moment in modern Iraqi history and the dangerous early days of men who would later reshape the nation.
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