‘Yes, they would execute a child’: the film about a girl who has to bake a birthday cake for Saddam Hussein
- Posted on February 2, 2026
- By The Guardian
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‘Yes, they would execute a child’: the film about a girl who has to bake a birthday cake for Saddam Hussein
Warm, funny and heartbreaking, The President’s Cake tells the story of a brutal ruler and a girl forced to make him a present in a time of sanctions-induced hardship. Its Iraqi director Hasan Hadi remembers his own fearful childhood
