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This is the story of a man with two faces. The shy Doctor Bachar, who has long seduced the West and promised to move his country towards more democracy. And the terrible Mister Assad, dictator, who fights his own people in a civil war with hundreds of thousands of victims.
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Thanks to testimonies from those close to him and former regime executives, the film recounts the rise of a man who should not have been president, and deciphers a system that resembles that of the Mafia. With his sponsors, his settling of scores, and his billions of dirty money. Bashar El-Assad received Syria as an inheritance from his father, Hafez El-Assad. It was he who built this iron dictatorship which has held the country for almost 50 years. The film also explores the passionate ties that unite France and Syria. Leading French political actors, former ministers or diplomats, take us behind the scenes of this tumultuous relationship. A relationship that the story of Bashar El-Assad symbolizes perfectly. The French presidents, Jacques Chirac then Nicolas Sarkozy, initially considered him a valuable ally and rolled out the red carpet for him. Before bitterly regretting it.
A film written by Christophe Widemann and Frédéric Martin
Production: Magneto Press