Jawad Al Shukrchi
Actor · Baghdad, Iraq
Jawad Al Shakarji (born 1951, Baghdad) is an Iraqi actor. He graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad in 1978 and began his career in theatre. He is known for The Long Days and won the Best Actor award at the Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre in 1989 for his performance in (If).
Movies6
Movie6.8DramaHistoryThe story of Imam Hossein's battle in Karbala, an unfair war which made one the most important effects in Islam history.
MovieA true story that occurred during the Iraq-Iran war, where one of the Iranian shells hit the bride Lamia on her wedding night. The story narrates the reality of the border city (Mandali) situated between Iraq and Iran, where the girl Lamia maintains loving relationships with everyone, highlighting the role of infiltrators like the madman who transmits information about the city to the other side.
Movie6.3DramaWhen As’ad, a 12-year-old rubbish picker, adopts an American sex doll from the Baghdad dumps, he crosses into a perilous red zone, finding himself caught in the crossfire between abusive forces of commercialism and fundamentalism in a world where defenders of humanism have lost their power. He embraces the courage it takes to not just survive, but live.
Movie5.3ActionDramaIn 1959, underground revolutionaries try to assassinate Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Kassem in Baghdad. News reports claim they have failed, and at first the revolutionaries lay low, but as the secret police continue to comb the neighborhoods with house-to-house searches, they flee to the countryside. Among those fleeing is Saddam Hussein, the future president of the republic.
MovieRomanceComedyQassem has an accident that causes him to experience amnesia. A rural family finds him and gives him the name Hammady. He lives happily until another accident leads to the recovery of his memories.
MovieDramaHamed is arrested after he starts working in the black market. When he is released, he tries to make amends, but his obsession with money and wealth throws a wrench in his plans, and he gets arrested again.