General Information

Author/Creator

McAllister, Sean, director.

Language

Arabic, English.

Subtitles

English

Published

United Kingdom : McAllister, Sean, 2004.

Physical Description

DVD-ROM (72 min.)

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00002417

Contents/Summary

Summary

Sean McAllister went to Iraq to film Saddam Hussein's trial. He came back with something quite different. He met Samir Peter, once the pianist of the Baghdad Symphony Orchestra, who has spent the past year entertaining journalists and security guards in a hotel bar. Holed up in a heavily fortified Baghdad hotel, the pianist and the film-maker try to survive the 'peace' of post-war Iraq. In his heyday, Samir described himself as the 'Liberace of Baghdad' but today he sleeps in a bricked up hotel room, too afraid to cross town to his seven-bedroomed mansion. He has a visa for America, where he could find fame and fortune in what he calls his 'one last adventure in life'. Will Samir sacrifice his American dream for the sake of his family in lawless Iraq?

Subjects

Genre

Documentary films

Bibliographic Information

Note

Duration: 01:12:00

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
DVD-ROM	OSA Film Library	FL Record 0691	Available	-	-
Digital film	OSA Film Library	FL Record 0691 (HU_OSA_00002417.mp4)	Available		Access Copy, MP4 format