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Saddam TV drama earns rave reviews in Britain
0 Comments | AFP, July, 2008
LONDON (AFP) — A new BBC drama of the life of Saddam Hussein which portrays the late Iraqi leader as a brutish mafia boss reminiscent of the TV gangster Tony Soprano received rave reviews on Thursday.
The four-part British-US co-production "House of Saddam" charts Saddam's eventual elevation to bogeyman of the West following the military coup which brought him to power in 1979.
Filmed in location in Tunisia last year, Saddam is played by Israeli-Iraqi actor Igal Naor, who starred in "Munich" and "Rendition".
The first episode, shown on Wednesday, showed Saddam using his daughter's birthday party as the cover for a coup.
"'House of Saddam' is like 'The Sopranos' without the jokes, apart from a sterling performance by Chemical Ali to lighten the...
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