I FIORI DI KIRKUK (GOLAKANI KIRKUK)
synopsis
Following the example of the well-known mystical Arabic poems of the Seven Valleys of Wisdom, the film explores the Seven Valleys of Love. Najla, a young Arab woman from Bagdad, surrenders to an illicit love affair with the young Kurdish doctor, Sherko. Operation Al Anfal, the genocide that Saddam Hussein’s military units organised at the end of the 1980s, is rampaging all around them.
| original title: | I fiori di Kirkuk (Golakani Kirkuk) |
| country: | Switzerland, Italy, Iraq |
| sales agent: | Adriana Chiesa Enterprises (ACEK) |
| year: | 2010 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Fariborz Kamkari |
| release date: | IT 19/11/2010 |
| screenplay: | Fariborz Kamkari, Naseh Kamkari |
| cast: | Elisabetta Pellini, Morjana Alaoui, Ertem Eser, Mohamed Zouaoui |
| cinematography by: | Marco Carosi |
| film editing: | Marco Spoletini |
| art director: | Malek Jahan Khazai |
| costumes designer: | Malek Jahan Khazai |
| music: | L'Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio |
| producer: | Fabrizia Falzetti, Marcel Hoehn |
| production: | FARoutfilms, T&C Film AG, RSI - Radiotelevisione Svizzera di Lingua Italiana, RAI Cinema, Visual K Productions (IQ) |
| distributor: | Medusa Film, Columbus Film |
