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A flashy Ferrari, your wife, your daughter, your blood. Nobody refuses UDAY HUSSEIN and lives to tell the tale. He has a depraved lust for debauchery and corruption, and helps himself to whatever turns him on.
When the god-fearing lieutenant LATIF YAHIA is summoned to UDAY’S inner sanctum, he is offered the devil's bargain: he must become UDAY's body double or condemn his family to death.
No longer LATIF YAHIA, he is now UDAY HUSSEIN. As UDAY’s double, LATIF spirals into the giddy excesses of UDAY’s monstrous underworld of self-indulgence and shameless violence; until one day he looks in the mirror and does not recognize the man staring back at him.
In world built on corruption, murder and deceit, knowing who to trust becomes a matter of life or death for LATIF as he battles to escape the clutches of UDAY and survive his forced existence as The Devil’s Double.
Based on Latif's own bestselling books, “The Devil's Double” and “I Was Saddam's Son”, The Devil’s Double provides a chilling insight into the House of Saddam through the eyes of the man who knew too much.
When the god-fearing lieutenant LATIF YAHIA is summoned to UDAY’S inner sanctum, he is offered the devil's bargain: he must become UDAY's body double or condemn his family to death.
No longer LATIF YAHIA, he is now UDAY HUSSEIN. As UDAY’s double, LATIF spirals into the giddy excesses of UDAY’s monstrous underworld of self-indulgence and shameless violence; until one day he looks in the mirror and does not recognize the man staring back at him.
In world built on corruption, murder and deceit, knowing who to trust becomes a matter of life or death for LATIF as he battles to escape the clutches of UDAY and survive his forced existence as The Devil’s Double.
Based on Latif's own bestselling books, “The Devil's Double” and “I Was Saddam's Son”, The Devil’s Double provides a chilling insight into the House of Saddam through the eyes of the man who knew too much.
CREWLee Tamahori:
Dirctor. New Zealand born, Lee Tamahori won critical acclaim with his first feature in 1994, an adaptation of the Alan Duff novel, ONCE WERE WARRIORS. He then went on to direct the Hollywood crime thriller, MULHOLLAND FALLS, starring Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Jennifer Connelly and John Malkovich. Other credits include THE EDGE, written by David Mamet and starring Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin, ALONG CAME A SPIDER with Morgan Freeman, the Bond box office hit DIE ANOTHER DAY with Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry, XXX2: THE NEXT LEVEL starring Ice Cube, Samuel Jackson and Willem Dafoe and more recently NEXT with Nicholas Cage and Julianne Moore. Michael Thomas: Writer. Michael Thomas began his career as a teenage playwright before writing for a wide range of publications, including PLAYBOY, LOOK, LIFE, HARPERS, ESQUIRE, ROLLING STONE and THE SUNDAY TIMES. He made his feature debut in 1982 with COUNTRYMEN and later wrote THE HUNGER with David Bowie and Susan Sarandon, Oscar-nominated LADYHAWKE with Matthew Broderick, SCANDAL with Bridget Fonda and RUBY CAIRO with Liam Neeson. He recently scribed NIGHT WE CALLED IT A DAY and his latest project JOHANNESBURG is currently in development. Luis Carballar: Editor. Mexico City native Luis Carballar began his career as an assistant editor, and was then a freelance editor for such media companies as San Pedro Post and Adela Producciones. In 1995, he joined the production house Z Film, owned by Alejandro González Iñárritu. For Iñárritu, Mr. Carballar edited the feature AMORES PERROS, which earned him the Ariel Award (Mexico’s equivalent of the Oscars) from the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematograficas. Sam McCurdy: Director of Photography. Sam McCurdy has been a Director of Photography for a number of years having directed many films including the soon to be released CENTURION starring Dominic West. He also photographed both DESCENT I & II, STREET DANCE 3D with Charlotte Rampling, THE HILLS HAVE EYES II, OUTLAW directed by Nick Love, starring Sean Bean, Rupert Friend and DOG SOLDIERS with SEAN Pertwee and Kevin McKidd. For television McCurdy has worked on THE STREET, WIRE IN THE BLOOD and TEACHERS. CATHERINE VANDELEENE: Producer. Catherine Vandeleene is a film producer and Chief Operating Officer at Corsan. She graduated with a Masters in Archaeology at the University of Ghent and received an MBA at Vlerick-Institutewhere she was also active as an educational coordinator. She and Paul Breuls have produced all of Corsan’s feature films to date. Her recent credits include THE BOX COLLECTOR, THE HESSEN AFFAIR and MEANT TO BE EMJAY RECHSTEINER: Producer. With Staccato Films, Emjay Rechsteiner developed and produced tens of fiction films, documentaries and commercials. His productions and co-productions won many international awards including the audience award in Cannes (Pauline & Paulette) and Best European Film at the Hollywood Film Festival (Moonlight). Emjay produced the most awarded (Suzy Q, 1999) as well as the best watched (De Punt, 2009) tv-films ever broadcast in the Netherlands. Other features include The Emperor's Wife (starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers), Sweet Jam (opening film Venice Days) and Buenos Aires Vice Versa (Un Certain Regard, directed by Alejandro Agresti). Currently in post-production is Terrestrials. PAUL KIRBY: Production Designer. Paul Kirby graduated in Production Design from The National Film and Television School in London, where he studied with Nick Park, director and animator of WALLACE and GROMIT and David Yates, director of HARRY POTTER. He started his film career working on Sir Richard Attenborough's CHAPLIN starring Robert Downey Jr. Working on over twenty five film projects, Paul has progressed through the art department, working on such films as SHADOWLANDS, THE FIFTH ELEMENT, three BOND movies. Kirby was Art Director on BATMAN BEGINS, PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, THE FOUR FEATHERS and Lee Tamahori's DIE ANOTHER DAY. He earned two nominations for The Art Director's Guild in 'Excellence in Production Design', for his work on BATMAN BEGINS and PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. ANNA B. SHEPPARD: Costume Designer. Anna B Sheppard is a London based costume designer with over 40 feature films to her name. She has worked on five continents with many acclaimed directors of our time. Highlights of her achievements include two Academy Award nominations for Steven Spielberg’s SCHINDLER’S LIST and Roman Polanski’s THE PIANIST for which she also received BAFTA and César nominations. Her other credits include the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, THE INSIDER directed by Michael Mann, SAHARA, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, OLIVER TWIST directed by Roman Polanski, SHANGHAI KNIGHTS and FRED CLAUS, both directed by David Dobkin. More recently she was designer on INGLORIOUS BASTERDS directed by Quentin Tarantino. |
Cast :
Philip Quast : Saddam Hussein Dominic COOPER : UDAY HUSSEIN / LATIF YAHIA Ludivine SAGNIER : SARAB Raad Rawi : Munem Jamie Harding : Qusay Saddam Hussein Dar Salim : Azzam Al-Tikriti Akin Gazi : Saad Abd Al-Razzeh Selva Rasalingam : Rokan Mem Ferda : Kamel Hannah Amber Rose Revah : Bride Nasser Memarzia : Latif's Father Mimoun Oaïssa : Ali Khalid Laith : Yassem Al-Helou Marama Corlett : Hennahead Stewart Scudamore : Jamal Al - Hamza Pano Masti : Said Kammuneh Mifsud : Mohammed Al Ramzi Rachel Fabri : Abdel Akle Frida Cauchi : Sajida Saddam Wife |