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Storyville - The Prisoner, or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair

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Director Mike Tucker's documentary begins in Baghdad on 22 September, 2003. Yunis Khatayer Abbas, a freelance Iraqi cameraman, had just returned home after filming a friend's wedding party when his house was besieged by American soldiers looking for a bomb factory. Yunis was accused of planning to kill Tony Blair and carted off to prison, where he was to spend the next eight months. This film tells the story of an ordinary man trying to make sense of an absurd and nightmarish situation.