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Al-ayyam al-tawila

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Al-ayyam al-tawila
Directed byTewfik Saleh
Terence Young
Written bySaddam Hussein
Tewfik Saleh
StarringSaddam Kamel
Nada Siham
Mohsin al-Azzawi
Ibrahim Jalai
CinematographyNuhad Ali
Edited byIrina al-Adadh
Music bySolhi El-Wadi
Release date
  • 1980 (1980)
Running time
150 minutes
CountryIraq
LanguageIraqi Arabic

Al-ayyam al-tawila (Arabic: الأيام الطويلة, romanizedal-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, who also wrote the screenplay.

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