Omer Chawshin

Omer Chawshin

Birthday: 1942-06-16

Place of Birth: Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan region, Iraq

Biography: Omer Chawshin is a Kurdish theater actor born in 1942 in Sulaymaniyah. He became a member of the Sulayymaniah Acting Troupe in 1967. Because of the lack of female actors and the restrictions on female actors, he wore and played female characters from the 1960s to the late 1980s.

Movies

Before Snowfall
Before Snowfall

Before Snowfall starts with a dramatic escape: Eighteen year-old Nermin runs away from her wedding i...

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Kick Off Kirkuk
Kick Off Kirkuk

Inside a beat up stadium in Kirkuk, Iraq, live many refugees trying to escape Sadam Hussein's admini...

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Life
Life

"Jiyan" takes place in Halabja about five years after Saddam's infamous chemical attack in 1988. Diy...

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Death Triangle
Death Triangle

To escape to the European paradise, the only way is a tunnel that is hidden. A 70 years old Christia...

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Mardan
Mardan

A police officer finds himself haunted by a traumatic childhood memory as he searches for a missing ...

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Whisper with the Wind
Whisper with the Wind

An elderly radio-operator travels across Kurdistan in the war-torn 80s assuring communication betwee...

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Dol: The Valley of Tambourines
Dol: The Valley of Tambourines

On his wedding day, a Kurdish man must flee through Turkish, then Iraqi and eventually Iranian Kurdi...

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The Woman of My Life
The Woman of My Life

Six year old Azad (a Kurd from Iraq) was engaged to his cousin Vian but after that the two kids were...

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The General Inspector
The General Inspector

When the governor hears that a general inspector has come to town, fearing that he'll uncover his co...

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