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Bookmark this pageKilometre Zero (2004)
Director: Hiner Saleem
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From Time Out London
Iraq, 1988: unable to leave the country while his bed-riddden father-in-law remains alive, Kurd Ako (Kirik) is forced to join Saddam’s army, and finds himself escorting a soldier’s corpse through the desert to his family, in a truck driven by a Kurd-hating Arab (Ekrem). While the sincerity of feeling behind this serio-comic road movie is never in question, the script is clumsy and predictable, the acting one-note and the direction fairly rudimentary. One particularly feels for Bilgin who, as Ako’s wife, is simply required to be either shrewishly hot-tempered or compliantly sexy. That thin characterisation is symptomatic of the movie’s generally undernourished feel.Author: GA
Time Out London Issue 1835: October 19-26 2005
Cast & crew
Director: Hiner Saleem
Cast: Nazmi Kirik, Eyam Ekrem, Belcim Bilgin full cast
Genre(s): Drama
Duration: 96 mins
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