Saddam: America's Best Enemy (2005)

Saddam: America's Best Enemy

2005

Documentary

Synopsis

Documents a 40-year relationship between Saddam Hussein and the U.S., through accounts given by those who were witness to and participants in those years of violence. It is about a man and a superpower who used each other, in a marriage of convenience between strange bed-fellows. Includes selected archival footage of Saddam's beginnings, filmed to immortalise his exploits, at 20 years of age, in 1959. Includes also images from the film, Saddam Hussein, le maître de Baghdad, directed by Michel Vuillermet (Zarafa Films)

Credits

Director

Pascal Vasselin

Cast

Fraser Macnaught as Narrator

Crew

Chantal le Baron (Editor)

Christophe Henrotte (Original Music Composer)

Arnaud Hamelin (Producer)

Edwige Laforêt (Researcher)

Jacques Charmelot (Writer)