Genre : biography, documentary, mini-series

Production : HBO Films in association with the BBC.

Directed : by Alex Holmes, Jim O'Hanlon

Authors : Alex Holmes, Stephen Butchard.

Editor : Philip Kloss.

Music : Samuel Sim

Producer : Steve Lightfoot.

Cast : Igal Naor, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Philip Arditti, Said Taghmaoui, Christine Stephen-Daly, Makram J. Khoury, Mounir Margoum, Agni Scott, Amr Waked, Akbar Kurtha, Said Amadis, Uri Gavriel.

House Of Saddam Review :

HBO premiered the first two hours of House of Saddam last night, half of the 4-hour mini-series dramatizing the reign of the late President Saddam Hussein of his seizure of the presidency in 1979 until his death in 2006.Starting with Saddam in July 1979 takeover of the Baath Party. He gets rid of politicians threw them of attempted murder plot (after being slain themselves Excellent) and installed family members in their positions. It is hard to believe any compassion for such cold-blooded character, because in Saddam's time that he committed fraud with his wife or his daughter out of hand on the politically attractive free. In fact, Saddam's family, and his time spent with them is much more interesting than his political intrigues. When traveling in Saddam's home turf in the vicinity of Tikrit, he Extol the virtues of life in the cradle of civilization. His younger son Uday, complains it is hot. Saddam turns to him with a look of disbelief. "You are the son of your mother. Of course you can hot!" he calls. "You're in the desert!" He saves, but the child upside the head, showing that he does not even have a free passage.

The adult Uday is addictive in a performance by Philip Arditti. Impatient in the power-hungry nature of the eldest sons Uday as a one-man soap opera. He hit a vicious man dead at a party for little reason, then half hour later so ashamed and afraid of the reaction of his father that he tried to commit suicide. Uday the loose cannon antics, plus Bollywood-style propaganda videos and an autobiographical film, Saddam has, the house of Saddam Able Watch. And yet, although a large part of the film focuses on Saddam's political manipulations, the bloodiest bits (eg gasification of the Kurds) shooting in favor of closed door meetings, all to the call of C-SPAN. More information click