House of Saddam
House of Saddam
TV-MA | 30 July 2008 (USA)
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    super_kevin_k

    I am a huge fan of this show! its a really great Drama. I only wish there were more episodes in it-it was really captivating!the acting is genius,especially the actress Amber Rose Revah. she is amazing!! SHE ROCKS!!and shes cute =)i am mates with her and she hangs round mine a lot but i am not biased!!if you get a chance to watch this-keep an eye on her.she plays Hala Hussein; the youngest daughter of Saddam.You also have a really fantastic lead performance from Yigal Naor.the series is all about Saddams reign, his friends and family and is really eye opening.it shows the world the true face of the evil tyrant that was Saddam Hussein.you can catch it on BBC HBO-i really recommend it,though it is quite gory at times.deserves no less than 10/10

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    Marwan Qaqaa

    I have seen this series, but as a citizen from a neighbor country that had a mass interaction with Iraq and it's history, i see that this drama looks like the history that written by winners of wars, they exaggerate faults and kill the beautiful points in a long dramatic story that we lived.Saddam as a character in this series is too different from the real person, he is more calm, some how polite with others, nice one when you talk with him, he was beloved from more than 200 million Arabic due to his good character, but in this movies he looks like a monster that don't know any thing about his real situation..... you have killed the memory of nations, at least for me as a viewer.

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    gray4

    This four-part mini-series grips you from the outset. Yigal Naor's portrayal of the young Saddam is brilliant, seizing power brutally but always with a purpose behind his brutality. This contrasts with the mindless, purposeless brutality of his elder son Uday (Philip Arditti), which comes through in the 2nd and 3rd episodes.The mini-series' structure, taking four key years in Saddam's life over 24 years, is managed extremely effectively, although one consequence is that some of the best-known incidents of his reign of terror have to be omitted.The character of each family member develops across the episodes and the overall sense of an all-pervading reign of terror comes over very powerfully.My main criticism is of the final episode, almost elegiac with a mellow Saddam on the run with a consequent loss of tension and momentum. Although I suppose that, as we all know what happened to him right from the start, this is probably inevitable. But well worth watching and superbly acted by everyone.

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    arashrafiq

    house of Saddam is a short series on the life of Saddam Hussein and his family and the friends near him. for people interested in the life oh Saddam and the happenings in Iraq during his regime its a must watch. well shot and directed. i will give it a 9 out of 10. nothing has been made like it before.the film starts from his regime in 1979. how he took over the Iraq presidential seat. it follows through the gulf war and later Kuwait incidents and finally his bringing down. it sheds light on how it was a jungles law out there for his family. the actors have done justice to their rules especially noar has pulled a great performance. all in all a good series to watch especially for the people who have been there in his regime. they can feel it for sure

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