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Voiced and executive produced by Academy Award winning actor Tilda Swinton, Letters from Baghdad tells the extraordinary and dramatic story of British spy, explorer and political powerhouse Gertrude Bell, who was the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day. Bell traveled widely in Arabia before being recruited by British military intelligence to help draw the borders of Iraq after WWI, establish the modern state of Iraq and reshape the modern Middle East in ways that still reverberate today. Among her accomplishments, she created the Iraq Museum to preserve the priceless cultural artifacts and antiquities of the region. This was the museum that was infamously ransacked during the American invasion in 2003. Many of the ancient sites that Gertrude Bell visited and photographed, such as Palmyra, Nineveh and Nimrud, have been destroyed by ISIL. She left over 7000 photographs, including stunning panoramas of these sites. Nicole Kidman portrays Gertrude Bell in Werner Herzog’s upcoming film Queen of the Desert.
Original Release
10/09/2016
US Release
11/12/2016
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Michael Higgs | General Sir Gilbert Clayton |
Eric Loscheider | T.E. Lawrence |
Rachael Stirling | Vita Sackville-West |
Adam Astill | Sgt. Frank Stafford |
Helen Ryan | Lady Florence Bell |
Joanna David | Janet Courtney |
Jürgen Kalwa | Dr. Friedrich Rosen |
Tom Chadbon | Sir Valentine 'Domnul' Chirol |
Simon Chandler | David Hogarth |
Lucy Robinson | Lady Molly Trevelyan |
Directors
Zeva Oelbaum, Sabine Krayenbühl
Cast
Name | Character |
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Michael Higgs | General Sir Gilbert Clayton |
Eric Loscheider | T.E. Lawrence |
Rachael Stirling | Vita Sackville-West |
Adam Astill | Sgt. Frank Stafford |
Helen Ryan | Lady Florence Bell |
Joanna David | Janet Courtney |
Jürgen Kalwa | Dr. Friedrich Rosen |
Tom Chadbon | Sir Valentine 'Domnul' Chirol |
Simon Chandler | David Hogarth |
Lucy Robinson | Lady Molly Trevelyan |
Andrew Havill | Sir Percy Cox |
Anthony Edridge | Sir Arnold 'A.T.' Wilson |
Nicholas Woodeson | General Sir George MacMunn |
Zaydun Khalaf | Fakhry Jamil |
Michelle Eugene | Dorothy Van Ess |
Mark Meadows | Lt. Col. Frank Balfour |
Amed Hashimi | Suleiman Faidhi |
Ammar Haj Ahmad | Muhammad Abd Al-Hussayn |
Hayat Kamille | Mme. Jamil Zadeh |
Rose Leslie | Young Gertrude Bell / Young Gertrude Bell (voice) |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Tilda Swinton | Executive Producer |
Denise Benmosche | Executive Producer |
Elizabeth Chandler | Executive Producer |
Ashley Garrett | Executive Producer |
Ruedi Gerber | Executive Producer |
Alan Jones | Executive Producer |
Thelma Schoonmaker | Executive Producer |
Zeva Oelbaum | Producer |
Mia Bays | Producer |
Kevin Brownlow | Producer |
Fabrice Esteve | Producer |
Tracie Holder | Producer |
Andrea Miller | Producer |
Serena Nutting | Producer |
Christian J. Popp | Producer |
Rob Quaintance | Producer |
Sabine Schenk | Producer |
Carla Solomon | Producer |