| Al Qadisiyya | |
| Director: | Salah Abu Seif |
| Starring: | Soad Hosny Ezzat El Alaili Laila Taher Shaza Salem Hassan Al-Jundi |
| Music: | Walid Gholmieh |
| Runtime: | 145 minutes |
| Country: | Egypt Iraq |
| Language: | Arabic |
| Gross: | $15,000,000 |
Al Qadisiyya is a 1981 Iraqi drama film directed and co-written by Salah Abu Seif. It was entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival.[1] The historical film was produced in tandem with Egypt and with Iraq’s Cinema and Theatre Department.[2]
The film portrays the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah, in which the Islamic army of Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas (after the death beforehand of Al-Muthanna ibn Haritha) definitively ended the Sassanid Empire by defeating the Persian forces of Rostam Farrokhzad.
The cost of production was estimated at 4 million Iraqi dinars, at the time equivalent to 15 million dollars. It was the most expensive Arab film production in history at the time.[3] [4]