In today’s Iraq, a hitman and a family are condemned to each other by circumstance. He looks down from above on the courtyard where the difficult family life largely takes place.
The wife deceives her husband with a much younger housemate, but finds out that the two men are barely different. Both vent their frustrations using violence. Her man feels humiliated by the intruder, the disgust his much younger wife feels towards him, and his daughter’s unwanted pregnancy. The hitman is quite sympathetic but goes off the rails slowly when he has to liquidate one of his old student friends, who are now all doctors or professors.
All the characters stand for the situation in which Iraq finds itself. Images of street life in Baghdad, all shot from within a tank, make it clear that the occupier is equally imprisoned. A subtle, beautifully shot drama that leaves viewers not without hope of a better future.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Germany, Iraq
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2010
- Length
- 90'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
