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Loss Of Loved One | Iraq
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Best Foreign Film in CoProduction Meilleur film tranger en coproduction | 2012 | Ken
Jordan stood in for Iraq - as it had done for Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (2008). The production team shot for a week there.
Actor Vortre Williams was really waterboarded for the film. Trying to fake it proved too clearly false so it was felt that it had to be performed for real. Despite hefty safety precautions, Williams was highly traumatized by the experience and suffered panic attacks for several weeks after.
The title refers to the nickname that was given to the rubble-strewn road linking the "safe" Green Zone to the international airport in Baghdad during the height of the US invasion. It was once referred to as the most dangerous road in the world.
This is director of photography Chris Menges' second Iraq-themed movie. He had previously photographed Kimberly Peirce's Stop-Loss (2008).
A French-British co-production.
"Harim: This song is from Mesopotamia, uh... which means the land between the two rivers: the Tigris and the Eufrates, where the homo sapiens learned to write, to count and mark the stars, which anthropologists called the cradle of civilizations. In my dreams it might be once again."
