ALBAWABA - The 'Hiding Saddam Hussein' documentary has been making a great success across cinemas around the Arab world as it gained $1 million in a few weeks after it was released.
According to media reports, the documentary, which was directed by Kurdish director Halkawt Mustafa, earned over $1 million in 17 days across seven Arab countries.
The documentary talks about the story of Alaa Namiq, the person who hid the Iraqi former president during the American invasion for 235 days.
Namiq kept the late president of Iraq in a village south of Tikrit while thousands of US troops were searching for him after he was ousted from power in 2003.
Rudaw reported the documentary made its highest number of attendees with over 44,000 in UAE making nearly 60% of the total revenue. The movie was also screened in Morocco and Tunisia.
The plot of Hiding Saddam Hussein:
It was an iconic moment worldwide when Iraq's Saddam Hussein crawled out of a hole in the ground in 2003. Two decades after the incident, the man who dug that hole tells the fantastical story of how he, an ordinary farmer, hid the deposed president beneath a flowerbed in his garden for eight months.
On camera, he talks about the day his house was selected as a hideaway for this wanted man, hunted by 150,000 US soldiers. The Iraqi farmer had no choice but to assume the role of presidential hairdresser, physician and bodyguard—and something akin to a friendship seems to have grown between them as they ate together and helped wash each other’s backs.
