Long Days (1980)
2h 30m
Running Time
January 2, 1980Release Date
Plot.
In 1959, underground revolutionaries try to assassinate Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Kassem in Baghdad. News reports claim they have failed, and at first the revolutionaries lay low, but as the secret police continue to comb the neighborhoods with house-to-house searches, they flee to the countryside. Among those fleeing is Saddam Hussein, the future president of the republic.
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Details.
Release DateJanuary 2, 1980
Original Nameالأيام الطويلة
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 30m
Genres
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Wiki.
Al-ayyam al-tawila (Arabic: الأيام الطويلة, romanized: al-ʾAyyām aṭ-Ṭawwīla, lit. 'The Long Days') is a 1980 6-hour long biographical account of Saddam Hussein's attempted assassination of Abd al-Karim Qasim in 1959, although some sources also list a running time of 150 minutes. It was filmed in 1980 and allegedly edited by Terence Young, who also directed three James Bond films.
The film starred Hussein's cousin Saddam Kamal as Saddam and was directed by Tewfik Saleh.