Point du Jour International | OUR FRIEND SADDAM, Antonia RADOS

January 2003: One of the reasons put forward to justify a war with Iraq, is the fact that the country is still in possession of weapons of mass destruction. The film "Our friend Saddam", is to get an answer to a simple but embarrassing question : who made it possible for Saddam Hussein to acquire these weapons ? Or even more precisely : who helped giving Saddam Hussein access to nucelar, chemical and biological armement technology, on such a scale ?

"Our Friend Saddam" investigates in the Iraq, in France, Germany, the Unites States and Israel and bases itself on exclusive interviews with political leaders such as Tarek Aziz, François Poncet, with US senators as well as the originators of the Iraqi nucelar programme, Hamza and Sharistani who live in exile today. Further key interviewees and a selection of archival documents -many of them hitherto unseen - completes the enquiry.

Festivals and Awards:
* Special Prize of the Jury - FIGRA (France, 2004)
* Romy Schneider Prize (Austria, 2003)

OUR FRIEND SADDAM

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