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Return to the Land of Wonders is a film of genre Documentary released in USA on 27 april 2004

Return to the Land of Wonders (2004)

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Released in USA 27 april 2004
Length 1h28
Rating67% 3.372813.372813.372813.372813.37281

Return to the Land of Wonders is a documentary film made almost single-handedly by Maysoon Pachachi in 2003–04.

Pachachi went returned to Iraq after an absence of 30 years when her father, Adnan Pachachi, was appointed to the Iraqi Governing Council in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq. She brought a video camera with her to document conditions in Iraq and her father's participation in the drafting of Iraq's interim constitution.
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