Nine-year-old Lamia is obliged by her school to bake a birthday cake for Saddam Hussein, and meets a series of vivid characters as she shops for sanctioned ingredients
There’s a terrific charm and swe…
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‘Yes, they would execute a child’: the film about a girl who has to bake a birthday cake for Saddam Hussein ⊖
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Warm, funny and heartbreaking, The President’s Cake tells the story of a brutal ruler and a girl forced to make him a present in a time of sanctions-induced hardship. Its Iraqi director Hasan Hadi re…
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