The Iraqi Candidate | 見證

電影製片人: Paul Eedle

Abdulrahman Dheyab left his young wife, newborn son and comfortable life in London to risk his life standing as a parliamentary candidate in Iraq’s elections.

His goal is to create a new politics in Iraq, after decades of dictatorship, a US occupation, sectarian civil war a now an-out-of-touch political class. Abdulrahman is determined to change things for the better.

His belief in a politics of service to the community is modeled, after four years spent living in the UK, on the British Conservative Party.

Once a junior officer in Saddam’s army, Abdulrahman once plotted against the dictator.

He is the son of a respected tribal mediator and the son in law of a politician who persuaded the tribes of Western Iraq to defy al-Qaeda, he still has many enemies.

His campaign will be politics and its most basic- he is standing on a platform of new jobs and infrastructure for the villagers with whom he grew up.

然而, he soon discovers that the cut and thrust of Iraqi politics is not just dirtier than he expected- it is also far more dangerous.

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