Desc: Al-ayyam al-tawila: Directed by Tewfik Saleh, Terence Young, Khairiya A-Mansour. With Saddam Kamel, Nada Siham, Mohsin al-Azzawi, Ibrahim Jalai. 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.