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My Sweet Pepper Land - Trailer. After the fall of Saddam Hussein, Baran, a Kurdish independence war hero, resolves to accept a position in a godforsaken village at the borders of Iran and Turkey, an illegal trafficking Mecca.
- 2 min
Oct 22, 2013 · http://www.stockholmfilmfestival.se
- 3 min
- 5.9K
- Stockholm International Film Festival
May 30, 2014 · Kurdish director Hiner Saleem brings these two polar opposites together to great effect in his new film My Sweet Pepperland, which deftly mixes the grim yet hopeful political realities of trying to forge a new society in northern Iraq in the aftermath of the war to topple Saddam Hussein, with age-old social proprieties, power struggles, and the ...
MY SWEET PEPPER LAND. The story of Baran, a hero of the Kurdish war of independence, accepting to become chief of police in a small valley in Iraqi Kurdistan, on the border with Turkey and Iran. A lawless territory, at the heart of the Bermuda Triangle, a backcloth for trafficking in alcohol, drugs and medicine.
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My Sweet Pepper Land. A Kurdish war hero is now a sheriff in a peaceful town where he finds no use of himself, thus he decides to quit his job but then he is provided a posting in a lawless village located at the borders of Iraq, Iran and Turkey and he agrees to it.
- 100 min
In a remote village in Iraqi Kurdistan lives the Kurdish patriot Baran who since recently serves as a policeman. He cannot help but provoke the local villain Aziz Aga and finds himself supported by an attractive lady named Govend who works as a teacher.
A quietly anarchic humor pervades this Kurdish western about a lawless region left in ruins following the fall of Sadam Hussein. Starring Golshifteh Farahani, My Sweet Pepperland is a rambunctious tale of love and retribution, where the fight for law and order constantly rubs up against chaos.
