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- 2005
- Arab Film Distribution
- 1 h 28 m
- 2005
- Arab Film Distribution
- 1 h 28 m
Summary Moving between the political sphere and everyday life on the streets of Baghdad, this documentary offers a unique glimpse into the resilience of Iraqis as they struggle to sustain their lives and to fight off a sense of despair and defeat. (Arab Film Distribution)
Directed By: Maysoon Pachachi
- 2005
- Arab Film Distribution
- 1 h 28 m
- 2005
- Arab Film Distribution
- 1 h 28 m
Return to the Land of Wonders
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Summary Moving between the political sphere and everyday life on the streets of Baghdad, this documentary offers a unique glimpse into the resilience of Iraqis as they struggle to sustain their lives and to fight off a sense of despair and defeat. (Arab Film Distribution)
Directed By: Maysoon Pachachi
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Mixed or Average
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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80% Mixed
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
60
20% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
80% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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The filmmaker keeps things lively by roaming far and wide with her camera, returning to the statesmanship side of the documentary often enough to let us follow relevant events as they unfold.
An on-the-fly diary of events and impressions that offers insight into the challenges of extracting democracy from chaos.
As she revisits the formative people and places of her childhood, Pachachi achieves vérité lyricism, illuminating a host of lives shattered by both a ruthless dictator and the Western hegemon that replaced him.
Offers interesting views of ordinary life in Baghdad that Americans won't find on TV news. But the impact is lessened by the director's failure to let those who think the war is justified have their say.
Pachachi doesn't integrate her interviews into any kind of comprehensive portrait of recent Iraq history. They're bunched together randomly, like a collection of vignettes.
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Production Company
Falafel Daddy Productions,
Oxymoron Films,
Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)
Release Date Jul 13, 2005
Duration 1 h 28 m
Genres