In 'Operation Filmmaker,' an Unscripted Outcome
Icarus Films
Muthana Mohmed in Prague, Czech Republic.
Operation Filmmaker
- Director: Nina Davenport
- Genre: Documentary
- Running Time: 90 minutes
This film is unrated.
A year after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, actor Liev Schreiber had what he thought was a good idea: He'd reach out to a Baghdad film student, offering him an internship on a shoot in the Czech Republic.
But good intentions don't always end in good outcomes: Muthana Mohmed wasn't the person the Hollywood veterans expected he would be — and the dreary realities of an on-location shoot weren't what Mohmed thought he was signing up for.
Critic-at-large John Powers reviews Nina Davenport's documentary Operation Filmmaker, which follows Mohmed and his benefactors as a well-meant gesture goes dramatically (and comically) awry.
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