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TheDevils Double
The Devils Double
Based on a true story, this is a story of too much power, too much money, and just opulent decadence.It shows the excesses and violence of Bagdad in 1987.
Summoned from the frontline to Saddam Hussein’s palace, Iraqi army lietenant Latif Yahia, (Dominic Cooper), is to become the body double to Saddam’s son, the notorious ‘Black Prince”, Uday Hussein. [Also played by Dominic Cooper}
Nothing can prepare Latif for the horror of the Black Prince’s psychotic drug addled life of fast cars, easy and not so easy women and appalling brutal violence, when they don’t cooperate.
As war looms with Kuwait, and Uday’s depraved gangster regime is becoming more brutal and corrupt, Latif realises that one wrong move could cost him his life, but, to escape this devils den, will come with a high cost.
Based on Latif’ Yahia’s book, this story presented a prime opportunity to capture the opulent sights and corrupt way of life inside and outside the Iraqi palace in the late 1980’s. This is a chilling adapation of Latif’s book and its hard to believe that one man could be so depraved, but tolerated because he was Saddam’s son.
Interpersed throughout the film are actual battle scenes of the war raging in Iraqi.
Although this film will have you glued to you seats, some of you will be shocked with all the swearing, the ugly bedrooms scenes, the drug taking, and the brutality of life during one mans regime.
You see very little of Saddam, (played by a double when he does appear); the film is mostly all about his out of control, ugly, psycotic son.
A stunning double performance by Dominic Cooper. Directed by Lee Tamahori. It runs for 107 Minutes.
Australian Competitions Club
