The Flowers of Kirkuk

Cruel politics and intensive love. Najla (N) has just finished her medical studies in Rome. Sherko (S) conceals sick and injured partisans. Mokhtar (M) belongs to the dictator's police. S and M love N, N loves S. When she gets a letter from S that she must forget him, she returns to Kirkuk. As a doctor she can help S. Mokhtar follows her trail and S and N are arrested. S is tortured. N is beaten up and then offered the job as a police doctor, a reward for leading the police to S. She accepts because then she can collect and pass on the names of people murdered or tortured. She will attend many mass murders of women and children. Once she can save them by fabricating that a child has cholera, with greater risk of contamination if she is dead. – When M understands that he cannot win N's love, he smuggles both N and S out of the country. Fully aware of the consequences he distracts the border guards and is shot by them. Max Scharnberg, Stockholm, Sweden

5.5

118 min

Cast

Morjana Alaoui

as Najla

Darbaz Dara

as Rizgar

Mohamed Zouaoui

as Mokhtar

Ertem Eser

as Sherko

Mohammad Bakri

as Old Sherko

Sarkaw Hadi Ayze

as Karim

Diya Hassan

Maryam Hassouni

as Rim

Ashraf Hamdi

as Rasheed

Falah Fleveh

as The Uncle

Shilan Rahmani

as Bayan

Sarkaw Gorani

as Karim

Fehd Benchemsi

as Hashem

Director

Fariborz Kamkari