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Jun 14, 2017 · In “Letters from Baghdad,” a new documentary about the life of Bell, by the filmmakers Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbühl, Tilda Swinton reads from the letters with a pitch-perfect mix of...
- Elias Muhanna
Synopsis. The film chronicles the work of Gertrude Bell, an Englishwoman and archeologist, living in Arabia in the early 20th century. Her work helped to shape the Arab nation in the aftermath of World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, including the partition of the Ottoman Empire and establishment of the Kingdom of Iraq . Cast.
Letters from Baghdad tells the extraordinary and dramatic story of Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day. An explorer and political powerhouse, Bell shaped the destiny of Iraq after World War I in ways that still reverberate today.
Apr 14, 2017 · “Letters from Baghdad”, a beautiful and deeply moving film of Gertrude Bell’s life - magnificent and adventurous, but ultimately desperately tragic - suggests a very different and much...
May 31, 2017 · “ Letters From Baghdad: The True Story of Gertrude Bell and Iraq,” directed by Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum, is an experiment in documentary form — an unfortunate choice that perhaps...
- Sabine Krayenbühl, Zeva Oelbaum
"Letters from Baghdad" chronicles Bell’s extraordinary journey into both the uncharted Arabian desert and the inner sanctum of British Colonial power.
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With unique access to documents from the Iraq National Library and Archive and Gertrude Bell's own 1,600 letters, the story is told entirely in the words of the players of the day, excerpted verbatim from intimate letters, private diaries and secret communiques.
