Oct 02, 2020
88 min
Full-HD

Black Box Syria: The Dirty War (2020)

A look back over nine years of the Syrian Civil War, an inextricable conflict, like a black box, due to the competing interests of the many factions in presence and those of the foreign powers.

Category

Documentary History

Country

Germany

Companies

Halbtotal Film ZDF ARTE Phoenix

Birgitta Assheuer

Self - Narrator (voice)

Îlham Ahmed

Self - Politician

Zaher al-Saket

Self - Former Syrian Military Gen.

Mohammad Almahmoud

Self - Syrian Refugee

Yaakov Amidror

Self - Security Advisor

Mehmet Beshir

Self - Al-Hawl Camp Leader

Jonathan Conricus

Self - Israeli Army Colonel

Sam Dagher

Self - Assad Family Biographer

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