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The Flowers of Kirkuk(2010)
Status: Released
Date: 2010-11-19
55%
3 Votes
Time: 1h 58m
Cruel politics and intensive love. Because of the same love the same person makes a very foul and a very fine act
Overview:
Cruel politics and intensive love. Najla (N) has just finished her medical studies in Rome. Sherko (S) conceals sick and injured partisans. Mokhtar (M) belongs to the dictator's police. S and M love N, N loves S. When she gets a letter from S that she must forget him, she returns to Kirkuk. As a doctor she can help S. Mokhtar follows her trail and S and N are arrested. S is tortured. N is beaten up and then offered the job as a police doctor, a reward for leading the police to S. She accepts because then she can collect and pass on the names of people murdered or tortured. She will attend many mass murders of women and children. Once she can save them by fabricating that a child has cholera, with greater risk of contamination if she is dead. – When M understands that he cannot win N's love, he smuggles both N and S out of the country. Fully aware of the consequences he distracts the border guards and is shot by them. Max Scharnberg, Stockholm, Sweden
Languages: Arabic, Kurdish.
Countries:
Iraq,
Italy,
Switzerland
ProductionCompanies: 
Visual K. Production
Far Out Films
Movie: The Flowers of Kirkuk
Top 7 Billed Cast
Morjana Alaoui
Najla
Mohamed Zouaoui
Mokhtar
Mohammad Bakri
Old Sherko
Sarkaw Hadi Ayze
Karim
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Overview
Cruel politics and intensive love. Najla (N) has just finished her medical studies in Rome. Sherko (S) conceals sick and injured partisans. Mokhtar (M) belongs to the dictator's police. S and M love N, N loves S. When she gets a letter from S that she must forget him, she returns to Kirkuk. As a doctor she can help S. Mokhtar follows her trail and S and N are arrested. S is tortured. N is beaten up and then offered the job as a police doctor, a reward for leading the police to S. She accepts because then she can collect and pass on the names of people murdered or tortured. She will attend many mass murders of women and children. Once she can save them by fabricating that a child has cholera, with greater risk of contamination if she is dead. – When M understands that he cannot win N's love, he smuggles both N and S out of the country. Fully aware of the consequences he distracts the border guards and is shot by them. Max Scharnberg, Stockholm, Sweden
Release Date
2010-11-19
Average
5.5
Rating:
2.8 startsTagline
Cruel politics and intensive love. Because of the same love the same person makes a very foul and a very fine act
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