{"id":3727,"date":"2026-03-26T04:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentmag.unipr.it\/?p=3727"},"modified":"2026-04-22T01:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:36:20","slug":"happy-birthday-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentmag.unipr.it\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/happy-birthday-mr-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, Mr President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--link_color: var(--awb-color4);--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1144px;margin-left: calc(-4% 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);height:43px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-section-separator-spacer\"><div class=\"fusion-section-separator-spacer-height\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-has-icon fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-dashed\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;border-color:var(--awb-color2);border-top-width:3px;\"><\/div><span class=\"icon-wrapper\" style=\"border-color:transparent;font-size:23px;width: 1.75em; height: 1.75em;border-width:3px;padding:3px;margin-top:-1.5px\"><i class=\"fa-angle-double-down fas\" style=\"font-size: inherit;color:var(--awb-color2);\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-dashed\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;border-color:var(--awb-color2);border-top-width:3px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;\"><p>Le idiosincrasie dei dittatori raggiungono spesso vette di imbecillit\u00e0 di rara ponderabilit\u00e0. Si consideri il caso di <strong>Saddam Hussein<\/strong>. Al \u201cmacellaio di Baghdad\u201d stava molto a cuore il proprio compleanno, il 28 aprile, tanto da costringere gli alunni di ogni scuola dell\u2019Iraq a preparargli una torta: un simbolico <i>cadeau <\/i>da tributare alla magnanimit\u00e0 del Presidente. Anche negli anni immediatamente successivi al conflitto con l\u2019Iran, in un Paese vessato da sanzioni economiche internazionali, non c\u2019era verso: Saddam pretendeva i suoi dolci. Un vero golosone.<\/p>\n<p>Su queste traiettorie, storiche e di costume, si innesta il lungometraggio di Hasan Hadi, <i>La torta del presidente<\/i>. Opera prima del regista iracheno, il film narra le vicende di <strong>Lamia<\/strong> (Baneen Ahmad Nayyef), una bambina che vive con sua nonna, <strong>Bibi<\/strong> (Waheed Thabet Khreibat), in una capanna di giunche nella palude alluvionale del Tigri e dell\u2019Eufrate. Le due non se la passano molto bene, l\u2019anziana donna non \u00e8 pi\u00f9 in grado di lavorare, Lamia l\u2019aiuta come pu\u00f2: per queste ragioni, la notizia che il nome della piccola studentessa \u00e8 stato sorteggiato per l\u2019annuale preparazione della torta di compleanno del presidente \u00e8 come un fulmine a ciel sereno. Farina, zucchero e uova non sono semplici da reperire in un minuscolo villaggio fluviale, tanto meno se si considerano le magre risorse delle protagoniste. Raccattati i poveri averi, Lamia e Bibi (con l\u2019inseparabile galletto Hindi) si recano in citt\u00e0 per far provviste. La nonna, per\u00f2, ha altri progetti per la nipote: ha deciso di lasciarla alle cure di una famiglia del posto. Lamia non \u00e8 d\u2019accordo, e sfugge al suo controllo, dando innesco a una serie di peripezie, nel corso delle quali il compagno di scuola <strong>Saeed<\/strong> (Sajad Mohamad Qasem) le sar\u00e0 di prezioso aiuto. Al termine della giornata, la vita della piccola cambier\u00e0 per sempre.<\/p>\n<p>La pellicola di Hadi enuclea una serie variegata di temi: i soprusi insensati del regime, lo iato esistenziale tra citt\u00e0 e campagna, lo sbrindellarsi dei legami familiari, l\u2019amicizia, il lutto. Moderna Pollicina, Lamia si muove in un paesaggio in cui gli adulti non sembrano pi\u00f9 tali, ma assumono degli atteggiamenti inspiegabili, grotteschi. Per la prima volta, la protagonista perde il riferimento rappresentato dalla nonna, e dovr\u00e0 rimboccarsi le maniche per portare a compimento la sua missione: trovare gli ingredienti per la torta del presidente Saddam. Sembra che a nessuno importi, ma lei sa bene quanto sia importante, ne va della sicurezza sua e della nonna, tanto da giustificare il ricorso a occasionali furtarelli. Ogni angolo della citt\u00e0 nasconde un\u2019insidia, la sua casa e la piroga con la quale sonda le quiete acque del fiume per arrivare a scuola sembrano cos\u00ec lontane.<\/p>\n<p>La scelta neorealista del regista di impiegare attori non professionisti conferisce al film autenticit\u00e0, franchezza; il pericolo di una rappresentazione dell\u2019Iraq a uso e consumo di un pubblico occidentale sembra scongiurato. Hadi, cresciuto nei decenni della dittatura, \u00e8 abile nell\u2019inserire elementi che sottolineano la durezza del regime: la celebrazione dell\u2019uomo forte, ritratto in policromi manifesti sui muri della citt\u00e0; la penuria di medicinali, a causa delle sanzioni, in un ospedale sovraffollato; la storia di un soldato, reso cieco da una bomba americana, che sposa una donna che non ha mai visto, \u00abcos\u00ec non c\u2019\u00e8 da preoccuparsi se \u00e8 bella o no\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>Ci si affeziona a Lamia, inconsapevolmente coraggiosa, testardamente resiliente. Che alla fine cuocer\u00e0 la torta per Saddam, ma a un prezzo davvero impietoso. <i>Happy birthday, Mr President<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018La torta del presidente\u2019 \u00e8 un\u2019avventura rocambolesca nelle ombre dell\u2019Iraq degli anni Novanta<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[113],"autore":[170],"class_list":["post-3727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cool-tura","tag-film","autore-giovanni-andrioli"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentmag.unipr.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentmag.unipr.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentmag.unipr.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentmag.unipr.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentmag.unipr.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/studentmag.unipr.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3732,"href":"https:\/\/studentmag.unipr.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions\/3732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentmag.unipr.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentmag.unipr.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentmag.unipr.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentmag.unipr.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"autore","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentmag.unipr.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/autore?post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}