(It Was) Just a Job
1992, English. Directed by Samir Jamal Al Din.
Right after the first Iraq war, the filmmaker visits his family in Iraq. He tries to reconstruct the war from different points of view, all depicted on the same screen at the same time: U.S. airplanes dropping bombs, his parents fixated on the television, and the family welcoming him back.
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- 0h 5m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- English
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- Released
- 9 June 1992
- Country
- Switzerland, Iraq
- Written by
- Samir Jamal Al Din
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(It Was) Just a Job isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 9 June 1992. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed (It Was) Just a Job?
(It Was) Just a Job (1992) was directed by Samir Jamal Al Din.