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KARBALA

by Krzysztof Łukaszewicz

synopsis

April 2004, Iraq. During the holiday of Ashura, armed squads loyal to Shiite leader Muktada As-Sadr, supported by the Jihad movement, start an uprising in the Polish zone. The US command orders Polish troops to defend ‘City Hall,’ the headquarters of the local authorities and police loyal to the coalition troops, at all costs. The battle of Karbala during the Jihadist uprising becomes the largest military operation Polish troops have taken part in since the Second World War.

international title: Karbala
original title: Karbala
country: Poland
year: 2015
genre: fiction
directed by: Krzysztof Łukaszewicz
film run: 110'
release date: PL 11/09/2015
screenplay: Krzysztof Łukaszewicz
cast: Bartlomiej Topa, Antoni Królikowski, Leszek Lichota, Tomasz Schuchardt, Michał Zurawski, Piotr Żurawski, Hristo Shopov
cinematography by: Arkadiusz Tomiak
film editing: Michal Czarnecki
art director: Marek Warszewski
music: Cezary Skubiszewski
producer: Wlodzimierz Niderhaus
production: WFDiF - Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych, Telewizja Polska (TVP) - Agencja Filmowa, Agora S.A.
backing: Polish Film Institute
distributor: Next Film

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