The Agony of People

ژانی گەل

Sulaymaniah, Iraqi Kurdistan, in the 1940s. When his wife Kaleh goes into labor, her husband Jwamer runs to get the midwife. By ill luck, he runs into the middle of a political demonstration and is seriously wounded and arrested by mistake as the ringleader. After a rigged trial, Jwamer is sentenced to ten years in prison. He serves his sentence and, as soon as he is set free, goes in search of his wife and child.

Screenplay

Ebrahim Ahmad

Music

Karen Homayounfar

Screenplay

Khosro Sina

Screenplay

Jamil Rostami

Status

Released

Release date

22/07/2007

Original language

Kurdish