General information

Call No.:

350-4-3:82/1

Part of series

HU OSA 350-4-3 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Middle East: Iraq

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #82 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00009887

Date of production

1993

Date

1993

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English, English, Kurdish

Duration

50 min.

Content

Form/Genre

Documentary film

Contents Summary

The film follows writer Michael Ignatieff as he visits Iraqi Kurdistan with the intention of finding out whether the Kurds’ nationalism can overcome the political, linguistic, and geographical divisions among them. More broadly, Michael Ignatieff and the filmmakers want to find out if nationalism can create a nation. The film analyzes the newly emerging Kurdish state structures within Iraq. Participants in the film are Massoud Barzani (President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region and the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party), Halabja survivors, Peshmerge fighters, PKK members, leaders of the Kurdish Political Parties, and Turkish officials, as well as supporters of Kurdistan as an independent and sovereign state.

Context

Associated Names

Thomas, Colin (Producer)

Evans, Mali (Editor)

Ignatieff, Michael (Creator/Author, Interviewer, Presenter)

BBC (Producer)

Primedia (Producer)