| The voice of Kurdistan
Directors : Jacqueline Bottagisio & Georges
Drion
Year : 1979
Length : 66 min
In French, Germain and English version |
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Apart from the historical aspect of Kurdistan and its
division between four Middle-Eastern countries , the film
portrays the Kurdish national movement in Iraq from 1961
until 1975, with a description of different social and
political aspects : interview with a doctor, the situation
of the Kurdish women and staying with the Peshmergas (freedom-fighters).
The film introduces an analysis of the Barzani leadership,
which developped secret relations with the Shah of Iran
and the United States. This led to the eventual collapse
of the movement in 1975. The Iraqi Government, with
Saddam Hussein as Prime Minister, then carried out the
mass deportation of Kurdish villagers to the south of
Iraq.
These led to the resurgence in 1977 of a new liberation
struggle, led by the KDP and the PUK who both today
administer the liberated Kurdistan of Iraq.
A restored copy of The Voice of Kurdistan will be screened
at the Festival of Minorities in Douarnenez, France,
in August 2003.
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