Movies like The Flowers of Kirkuk

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The Flowers of Kirkuk (2010)
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The Flowers of Kirkuk (2010)
Original name: Golakani Kirkuk - The Flowers of Kirkuk
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, Iraq
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Cruel politics and intensive love. Najla (N) has just finished her medical studies in Rome. Sherko (S) conceals sick and injured partisans. Mokhtar (M) belongs to the dictator's police. S and M love N, N loves S. When she gets a letter from S that she must forget him, she returns to Kirkuk. As a doctor she can help S. Mokhtar follows her trail and S and N are arrested. S is tortured. N is beaten up and then offered the job as a police doctor, a reward for leading the police to S. She accepts because then she can collect and pass on the names of people murdered or tortured. She will attend many mass murders of women and children. Once she can save them by fabricating that a child has cholera, with greater risk of contamination if she is dead. – When M understands that he cannot win N's love, he smuggles both N and S out of the country. Fully aware of the consequences he distracts the border guards and is shot by them. Max Scharnberg, Stockholm, Sweden
Style: islamic
Plot: love, torture, self sacrifice, kurd, killing spree, murder, jealousy, dictatorship, execution, police brutality, fugitive, runaway
Place: iraq

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Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
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Duration: 115 min.
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