Jawad Al Shukrchi

Acting

Jawad Al Shukrchi

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).

Acting credits

Hussein Who Said No poster
6.8

The story of Imam Hossein's battle in Karbala, an unfair war which made one the most important effects in Islam history.

Hussein Who Said No

2014

The Carriage And The Horse poster
NR

The film presents, in a comedic manner, how to execute a dramatic film featuring a love story between a young man and a young woman. It depicts the execution of comedic scenes by shooting at the lover, as well as the selection of a cart and horse by the carriage driver Alwan. Alwan becomes annoyed during filming by the romantic expressions between the lovers, believing them to be real, which causes disruptions in the film's production.

The Carriage And The Horse

1989

An Iraqi Wedding poster
NR

A 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.

An Iraqi Wedding

1988

No artwork available
NR

The film depicts the harsh reality of refugees who were forced to leave their war-torn countries, as they find a glimmer of hope in their lives when they learn that American stars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are coming to the Syrian capital to visit the Iraqi refugees.

Lemon Taste

2011

Love In Baghdad poster
NR

Qassem 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.

Love In Baghdad

1987

The Horseman and the Mountain poster
NR

A border village during the Iran-Iraq war experiences the evils of war from the viewpoint of a young man who reflects on the fate that befell his village in this grinding war. The reality of war is reflected by the villagers who try to lead a normal life despite all the hardships they are facing.

The Horseman and the Mountain

1987

Place in Tomorrow poster
NR

Hamed 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.

Place in Tomorrow

1989

Hanging Gardens poster
6.3

When 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.

Hanging Gardens

2022

Task Force poster
NR

An Iranian attack occurs on the middle sector, prompting a team of Iraqi special forces to attempt to repel the assault. A tough confrontation unfolds until an Iraqi aircraft intervenes, bombing enemy barracks, and allowing some of the soldiers to survive the battle.

Task Force

1987

Long Days poster
5.3

In 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.

Long Days

1980

Gulf opening party 25 poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Gulf opening party 25

2023