Al-ayyam al-tawila (Arabic: الأيام الطويلة, romanized: al-ʾAyyām aṭ-Ṭawwīla, lit. 'The Long Days') is a 1980 6-hour long biographical account of Saddam Hussein's attempted assassination of Abd al-Karim Qasim in 1959, although some sources also list a running time of 150 minutes. It was filmed in 1980 and allegedly edited by Terence Young, who also directed three James Bond films.

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The film starred Hussein's cousin Saddam Kamal as Saddam and was directed by Tewfik Saleh, who also wrote the screenplay.

• Al-ayyam al-tawila at IMDb
• The Long Days on YouTube (French subtitles, 125 minutes)
• The Long Days on YouTube (no subtitles, 100-minute version)

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