Farewell Baghdad (2014)
April 10, 2014Release Date
Farewell Baghdad (2014)
April 10, 2014Release Date

Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.

Daniel Gadi
Khabi

Yasmin Ayun
Rachelle

Daniel Gad
Kabi

Uri Gavriel
Abu Edouar

Ron Shachar
Karim

Menashe Noy

Ahuva Keren
Naima

Mira Awad

Tawfeek Barhom
Adnan

Makram J. Khoury
Prime Minister

Maayan Eliasi
Petahya

Igal Naor
Salman

Nissim Dayan
Director / Producer / Screenplay

Dov Keren
Producer

Asaf Korman
Editor

Eli Amir
Screenplay
Media.


Details.
This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Farewell Baghdad (Hebrew: מפריח היונים, lit. The Dove Flyer; Arabic: مطير الحمام, romanized: Muṭayr al-Ḥammām) is an Israeli film based on the novel with the same name, by Iraqi-born Jewish writer Eli Amir. The film was directed by Nissim Dayan, who also wrote the screenplay. The idea for the film was conceived by actress Ahuva Keren, and the script was translated by her into Judeo-Arabic. The making of the film was completed in 2013, but the film itself was commercially released in April 2014.
Over nearly two hours, and through the story of a 16-year-old Jewish boy (Daniel Gad), Farewell Baghdad depicts the story of the last days of the Baghdad Jewish community of the 1950s, and on the eve of the Aliyah of almost all of that community to Israel in Operation Ezra and Nehemiah. At that time, The Kingdom of Iraq was struggling to overcome its defeat in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War against the nascent State of Israel, and was torn between Royalism, separatism and communism. On the other hand, the world's oldest Jewish community, which numbered at the time about a sixth of the population of the capital of Baghdad, also grappled between their historical and cultural relationship with the Iraqi people, the growing support for the communist movement, and their solidarity with the State of Israel and Zionism.
Farewell Baghdad is the first Judeo-Arabic-language film in the history of cinema (specifically, Baghdad Jewish Arabic), and as traditionally is with the Jews of Iraq, it is inserted with phrases from the scriptures (such as "Bar Minan", "Tisha B'Av" etc.) in their traditional Iraqi Hebrew pronunciations. When the Jewish characters talk with Arab Muslims, the dialect changes slightly and becomes a Muslim Iraqi Arabic.
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