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GHRAIB ERROR The Prisoner documents an Iraqi reporter's months of captivity — and ultimate exoneration — in an assassination plot in Iraq
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Limited Release: Mar 23, 2007; Rated: Unrated; Length: 72 Minutes; Genre: Documentary
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Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW
In the midst of outrageous misfortune, some twisted luck: Cameraman Michael Tucker (Gunner Palace) was trailing American soldiers in 2003 when they arrested Iraqi journalist Yunis Khatayer Abbas on a tip that he was in on a plan to kill the British prime minister. Eight months of interrogation and torture in fetid Abu Ghraib followed before he was released, innocent. None of The Prisoner's showy flourishes — animation, sound effects, fancy editing — can match the power of Abbas' stillness as he describes one man's agony in one huge hell.
Posted Mar 28, 2007
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