Saddam: America's Best Enemy

Saddam: America's Best Enemy

2005 · 54 min · ★ 9.0 · Documentary

Documents a 40-year relationship between Saddam Hussein and the U.S., through accounts given by those who were witness to and participants in those years of violence. It is about a man and a superpower who used each other, in a marriage of convenience between strange bed-fellows. Includes selected archival footage of Saddam's beginnings, filmed to immortalise his exploits, at 20 years of age, in 1959. Includes also images from the film, Saddam Hussein, le maître de Baghdad, directed by Michel Vuillermet (Zarafa Films)

Directed by Pascal Vasselin · Written by Jacques Charmelot

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