 
Code : 199853
Running Time : 72 mins
Language : English
Format : PAL DVD, Region 2
Aspect Ratio : 1.78:1
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| The Prisoner Or - How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair |
| Director:Michael Tucker And Petra Epperlein |
| Artefact Price: £10.00 |
| RRP: £15.99 - (You save £5.99) | | Distributor: Artefact Films |
| Subject: Dvds |
| Category: Current Affairs |
| Subject 2: Artefact Films |
| Category 2: Films |
Synopsis :
During the shooting of the award winning Gunner Palace Michael Tucker filmed a raid on a Baghdad house, which was suspected of being the centre of a plot to kill Tony Blair. Months later Tucker tracks down the men that were taken into custody that night. What he discovered was the almost surreal story of Yunis Abbas, a freelance journalist who was held for eight
months even after it was determined that he was not guilty any crime.
Despite protestations of his innocence, he is interrogated US Army Intelligence who switch between physical abuse and bombarding him with seemingly inconsequential matters such as “Did he like Harrison Ford movies” before shipping him to Abu Ghraib prison.
Assembled from post-jail interviews with both Abbas and a former American soldier who oversaw his detainment, Tucker andEpperlein present a chilling black comedy of errors, creating portrait of occupation bound up in a world of contradictions, irrationality, military blunder and hapless bureaucracy.
| Reviews :
“If this were fiction, it would seem unbelievable, and yet here it is, an all-too-real tale of survival amid the soulless machinery of war and occupation”.
Los Angeles Times
"A poignant documentary devastatingly shows and tells you more than you may perhaps want to know about the dehumanization implicit in the mighty, blighted Iraqi adventure."
Time Magazine |
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