Karbala

5.2

Poland

War Drama

115 min

2015

Bartłomiej Topa Jakub Wieczorek Alexander Sano Kazimierz Mazur Krzysztof Dracz Maciej Mikołajczyk Brian Caspe Tomasz Błasiak Anna Anosowicz François Coetzer Piotr Miazga Mikołaj Roznerski Samir Fuchs Antoni Królikowski Hristo Shopov Atheer Adel Leszek Lichota Michał Żurawski Tomasz Schuchardt Piotr Żurawski Zbigniew Stryj Piotr Głowacki Łukasz Simlat Robert Kowalczyk

On 3 April 2004, during the holiday of Ashura, Iraqi rebels loyal to Shiite leader Muktada As-Sadr, launched an insurgency in the Polish zone. The Poles, together with Bulgarian soldiers and Iraqi police, were given the task of defending City Hall, led by Lieutenant colonel Grzegorz Kaliciak. The clash developed into the biggest Polish engagement since World War II. Not a single allied soldier died, although about 80 insurgents were killed in a counter-attack.