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La Gazette
October 17, 2005
by ABDELHAK NAJIB
Source (French)

The Grande Connie Nielsen plays a reporter in Iraq

Turning IN MOROCCO “Situation” of Philip Haas puts in the high-speed motorboat Driss Roukh and Connie Nielsen

At the time when we put under press, the last sequences of the Situation film, realized by Philip Haas are turned between Rabat and Salted. The turning which began in June and July 2005 is prolonged for a few additional days in Morocco in this month of Ramadan. For this history written very well on Iraq of after-Saddam Hussein, it is the large actress of Danish extraction, Connie Nielsen which holds a role with the measurement of its talent. Following a murder of two young Iraqi, a journalist is sent in Iraq to inquire into the situation (from where the title), it will be confronted with a reality other than that conveyed by the media. A conflict with the chief of the moujahidines follows, resolutely anti-American, interpreted by excellent Driss Roukh, which finds at the sides of great names of the world cinema like Damian Lewis or Nasser Mirmazia (a great name of the Iranian cinema) an occasion to show the extent of its know-how. For the Moroccan actor, “it is the subject which justified my choice. To speak about Iraq by times which run in a film which is far from the usual productions of propaganda is a very good thing. Without forgetting that the experiment to play with Connie Nielsen is very important for the continuation of my career “. For the Danish actress, who accustomed us to precise roles and without ornaments, the requirement of the topicality is quite as decisive. At the same time a way of leaning on what occurs in the world and of bringing a lighting on the geurre and its through.