Baghdad in My Shadow

Nov 28, 2019

1h 45m

★ 5.9

Overview

A wide variety of Iraqis in exile meet at Café Abu Nawas in London, including the architect Amal, the poet Taufiq and the gay IT specialist Muhannad. They all want to finally feel free in London - something that was denied them in their homeland. But adversity threatens...

Genres

Thriller

Drama

Production Companies

Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion

Coin Film

Ipso Facto Productions

Baghdad in My Shadow Trailers

Cast

Taufiq Jasim

Haitham Abdel-Razzaq

Amal

Zahraa Ghandour

Muhannad

Waseem Abbas

Sven

Maxim Mehmet

Nasseer

Shervin Alenabi

Maha

Meriam Abbas

Samira

Awatef Naeem

Zeki

Kae Bahar

Ahmed Kamal

Ali Daim Mailiki

Yassin

Farid Elouardi

Martin

Andrew Buchan

Maude Robertson

Kerry Fox

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