The Devil's Double(2011)

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Synopsis

Summoned from the frontline to Saddam Hussein's palace, Iraqi army lieutenant Latif Yahia is thrust into the highest echelons of the "royal family" when he's ordered to become the 'fiday' -- or body double -- to Saddam's son, the notorious "Black Prince" Uday Hussein, a reckless, sadistic party-boy with a rabid hunger for sex and brutality. With his and his family's lives at stake, Latif must surrender his former self forever as he learns to walk, talk and act like Uday. But nothing could have prepared him for the horror of the Black Prince's psychotic, drug-addled life of fast cars, easy women and impulsive violence. With one wrong move costing him his life, Latif forges an intimate bond with Sarrab, Uday's seductive mistress who's haunted by her own secrets. But as war looms with Kuwait and Uday's depraved gangster regime threatens to destroy them all, Latif realizes that escape from the devil's den will only come at the highest possible cost.
Summoned from the frontline to Saddam Hussein's palace, Iraqi army lieutenant Latif Yahia is thrust into the highest echelons of the "royal family" when he's ordered to become the 'fiday' -- or body double -- to Saddam's son, the notorious …
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In Theaters

  • July 29, 2011

MPAA Rating

R (for strong brutal bloody violence and torture, sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and pervasive language)

Genres

Action/Adventure, Thriller, Biopic, Drama, Foreign, Adaptation

Box Office

$1,357,042

Directors

Lee Tamahori

Director

CAST

Dominic Cooper

Uday Hussein/Latif Yahia

Ludivine Sagnier

Sarrab

Mimoun Oaissa

Ali

Raad Rawi

Munem

Philip Quast

Saddam Hussein/Faoaz

Khalid Laith

Yassem Al-Helou
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