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How Saddam Hussein tried to interrupt into the movie enterprise – NEWPAPER24
How Saddam Hussein tried to interrupt into the movie enterprise
2020-12-12 00:18:36
In 1980 the Iraqi strongman, Saddam Hussein, tried to launch his nation into the world of film making.
He spent hundreds of thousands of {dollars} on an epic film known as “Conflict of Loyalties”, filmed nearly fully on location in Iraq, and starring a few of Britain’s main actors, together with Oliver Reed.
However quickly after taking pictures of the movie started, warfare erupted between Iraq and neighbouring Iran.
The movie’s Iraqi-born British producer Lateif Jorephani remembers what occurred subsequent.
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