"House of Saddam" Episode #1.3 (2008)

User Rating:

8.4/10   

Director:

Jim O'Hanlon

Writers:

Alex Holmes (written by) and
Stephen Butchard (written by)

TV Series:

"House of Saddam" (2008)

Original Air Date:

13 August 2008 (Season 1, Episode 3)

Genre:

Biography | Drama | War

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Saddam Hussein | TV Mini-Series | Hanging | Iran | Iraq

Cast

Yigal Naor	...	Saddam Hussein (as Igal Naor)
Shohreh Aghdashloo	...	Sajida Hussein
Makram Khoury	...	Tariq Aziz (as Makram J. Khoury)
Amr Waked	...	Hussein Kamel
Philip Arditti	...	Uday Hussein
Mounir Margoum	...	Qusay Hussein
Uri Gavriel	...	Ali Hassan Al Majid
Sean Arnold	...	Rolf Ekeus
Agni Scott	...	Raghad Hussein
Daniel Lundh	...	Saddam Kamel
Essa Zahir	...	Depot Manager
Shivani Ghai	...	Rana Hussein
Trevor White	...	CIA Officer Newman
Nadim Sawalha	...	King Hussein of Jordan
Raad Rawi	...	Kabariti

Runtime:

Germany:57 min

Country:

USA | UK

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Company:

HBO Films

Goofs:

Anachronisms: Saddam is shown watching a large flat panel television with an LCD or plasma screen. Flat panel displays as large as the one shown were not available in 1995, when this episode is set.

Quotes:

Qusay Hussein: [while at lunch with Uday and Sajida] So Mama, will you be celebrating the national holiday tonight?
Sajida Khairallah Talfah: I doubt it. All of my children will be with their father.
Uday Hussein: Because we have to be with him, Mama. I'd rather be at my club.
Qusay Hussein: With your Russian prostitutes?
Uday Hussein: [to Sajida, in his own defense] They're dancers.
Sajida Khairallah Talfah: [Chuckles] So how is your father? Still with the blonde, I understand.
Qusay Hussein: Not really.
Sajida Khairallah Talfah: Yes, really.
[to Uday]
Sajida Khairallah Talfah: Eat, azizi. I'm not stupid.
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