Ramadan Gatea Mozan, Lateif Jorephani and Mohamed Shukri Jameel.
Produced by
Iraqi Film and Theater Foundation
Starring
Oliver Reed John Barron James Bolam Helen Ryan Sami Abdul Hameed Qasim Al-Malak
Narrated by
Michael Hordern
Cinematography
Jack Hildyard and Majid Kamel
Edited by
Bill Blunden
Music by
Ron Goodwin
Distributed by
Iraqi Film Corporation
Release date
1983 (1983)
Running time
184 minutes
Country
Iraq
Languages
Arabic English
Budget
$24 mil
Clash of Loyalties (Arabic: المسألة الكبرى, romanized: al-masʿāla al-kubrā, lit. 'The Great Question') is a 1983 Iraqi film focusing on the formation of Iraq out of Mesopotamia in the aftermath of the First World War.[1]
The film was financed by Saddam Hussein, filmed in Iraq (mainly at the Baghdad Film Studios in Baghdad's Mansour neighbourhood and on location at the Tigris-Euphrates marshlands, Babylon and Kut) at the height of the Iran–Iraq War and starred Oliver Reed as Gerard Leachman, Marc Sinden as Captain Dawson[2] and Helen Ryan as Gertrude Bell, with score by Ron Goodwin.[3]
Investigative journalist James Montague, writing in the July 2014 issue of Esquire magazine, claimed that Marc Sinden spied for the British Government's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) during the filming of Clash of Loyalties in Iraq, after being made "an offer he couldn't refuse, appealing to his duty and his pride in Queen and Country." In the article, Sinden admitted that it was true.[4][5]
Both Arab and English versions of the film were produced.[1][6]
^ abArmes, Roy (1987). Third World film making and the West. University of California Press. pp. 206–207. ISBN 0-520-05690-6.
^"The Film Programme interview". BBC Radio 4. 2011-08-05. Retrieved 2011-08-06.
^"When Saddam Met Oliver Reed by James Montague". Esquire Magazine. 15 July 2014. Archived from the original on 4 February 2015. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
^Armstrong, Neil (24 July 2016). "Oliver Reed, Saddam Hussein and the true story of the world's most bizarre film". The Telegraph.
^"The Greatest Movie Story Never Told". Esquire (July 2012, pages 126-133). 2012-07-01.
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