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Iraqi Odyssey | movie | 2014 | Official Trailer
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2/12/2025
Tracing the emigrations of his family over more than half a century, this riveting documentary epic from acclaimed expat | dG1fOUs0R2hUU2ZlT2M
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50 years ago, nobody in our family could imagine that one day we would be scattered all over
00:13
the world.
00:14
When I was born, the world was neatly organized.
00:25
Soon after, the revolution broke out.
00:27
Those were exciting times.
00:30
It was beginning to blossom.
00:31
I think that the oil money began pouring in the country.
00:35
Everybody was so happy.
00:36
We are going to nationalize our oil.
00:38
We will send people abroad to study and come back.
00:40
We will have our friendship with the Soviets.
00:44
My father really wanted me to go to England.
00:46
I said, no, I will not go to the bloody bourgeois.
00:49
I'm going to the Soviet Union.
00:53
But this awakening ended in dictatorship and war after war.
01:02
Everyday explosions and glass-splattering, so I decided to leave.
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Now I am almost 80.
01:11
How can I return?
01:13
With the situation in my country, how could I return?
01:21
Religious fanatics, all the women in abayas, and underneath a headscarf too, and the arms
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covered to here, I don't know how they can bear the heat.
01:35
I want to be part of the change over there.
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What am I doing here?
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Enough.
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Go back and be with them.
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Today, over 4 million Iraqi citizens live all over the world, over 4 million stories,
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and my family story is just one of them.
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