Syrian child actor who rose to fame killed in city of Aleppo, The sit-com is a little like I Love Lucy, starring a banana housewife who gets into escapade and bickers with her husband. Except accouchement play all the roles. And it all takes abode in one of the celebrated rock houses in the old city-limits of Aleppo, besieged by government armament in one of the affliction battlegrounds of Syria's civilian war.
Um Abdou the Aleppan is a baby concern of the 5-year-old war, the aboriginal sit-com produced out of rebel-held locations of Syria.
Aired in 2014 on a bounded Aleppo station, it was a animated attending at activity in the war-ravaged city, award ball as it showed association ambidextrous with aggregate from cut-offs in electricity and water, to animosity a allotment of rebels, to bombardments and violence. The adolescent actors, even as they spot-on actor characters of a acceptable Aleppo neighbourhood, accommodate a emphasis of innocence.
Qusai Abtini, the 14-year-old boy who played the husband, was dead if a missile addled the car he was in as he approved to escape Aleppo. Fresh-faced with a acceptable beam and blubbery atramentous hair, Abtini had become a bounded celebrity.
His activity and afterlife underscored the adversity of Aleppans, whose city-limits was already the bartering centre of Syria with a thriving, different ability but has now been broken to pieces by fighting, with accomplished neighbourhoods larboard in ruin. Tens of bags in the city-limits accept been dead aback the summer of 2012, if Aleppo breach into rebel- and government-held districts and the two abandon angry on anniversary other.
In contempo weeks, government armament accept anchored their annoy of rebel-held sections, aggravating to cut off the endure escape routes. Canicule afterwards Abtini's death, several dozen men marched through his home commune in a allegorical funeral, bouncing action flags and chanting "Qusai has gone to heaven. Bashar is the analgesic of my people.''
Umm Abdou the Aleppan aired in about 30 episodes, anniversary about 10 account long, on the action base Halab Today TV. It was filmed in Aleppo, even as it was subjected about circadian to bombardment. In one outtake, three girls assuming a arena jump at the complete of an explosion, again go on with their lines.
Bashar Sakka, the director, said he casting kids because accouchement are the assemblage to "the massacres committed by Assad adjoin childhood".
The appearance is steeped in the atmosphere of Aleppo, Syria's better city, demography abode in the rock alleyways of one of its old neighbourhoods, with the chat in the city's audible emphasis of Arabic. The appellation character, Um Abdou, was played by a adolescent babe called Rasha, while Abtini played her husband, Abu Abdou.
Both appearance a aptitude for banana timing, arena a academic acceptable bedmate and wife. He's arrogant and patriarchal. She's clever, aggressive and a bit ditzy, ambidextrous with neighbouring families active on top of anniversary added in abutting quarters.
In one episode, the mother of a insubordinate fighter visits, searching to ally her son to Umm Abdou's daughter. Over tea, Umm Abou tells her all her daughters are affiliated to associates of the Chargeless Syrian Army, the analogously civil insubordinate awning group. If she learns that the -to-be benedict is a "mujahid'' - an Islamic active fighter - she slyly demands a top affairs to carefully antithesis the negotiations.
In addition episode, Um Abdou decides with her girlfriends to anatomy an all-female insubordinate faction. Abu Abdou teases her, saying, "You wish to go to the foreground curve if you're abashed of cockroaches". Again he tells her there's a abrasion beneath the couch and action as she all-overs up and screams.
Another arena has Abu Abdou traveling with rebels on a raid, but Um Abdou gossips about it to all her neighbours - and her bedmate comes aback blood-soaked from an ambuscade by government armament who abstruse of the planned attack. "I admiration how anybody begin out!'' Umm Abdou muses.
"Qusai was a actual accomplished boy,'' Sakka told The Associated Press. We were searching for an able boy,'' he said from southern Turkey via Skype. "We capital him to be chargeless with ideas, and after abhorrence of Bashar Assad's administration and its ruthlessness.''
Abtini was 10 years old if accumulation protests aboriginal erupted adjoin the aphorism of President Bashar Assad erupted in March 2011. He became apprenticed circuitous in the uprising, demography allotment in anti-Assad demonstrations, generally sitting on his earlier brother's shoulders. He batten in action videos, criticising Assad's government and anecdotic Aleppo's destruction.
At the aforementioned time, he acted in academy plays. Afraa Hashem, his school's director, saw his aptitude and alien him to Sakka.
"He was actual ambitious. Already he confused from acting in plays to TV, his dreams broadened and formed on transforming what he was active through'' into his performances, she said, speaking from Aleppo via Skype.
After the TV series, Abtini had roles in bounded theatre. Endure summer, he played a insubordinate dead in fighting. As his mother weeps over his body, a man tells her: "Be blessed for him. He capital affliction and got it.''
During contempo shelling, Abtini's home was hit and his ancestor was wounded, larboard apprenticed to a wheelchair. On July 8, Abtini's ancestor absitively to forward his accouchement out of Aleppo.
But as the car Abtini was in fabricated a run down the one alley out of rebel-held locations of Aleppo, a missile addled it.
In a video of the allegorical burial a few canicule later, his ancestor in his wheelchair watches the marchers go by, captivation a placard reading, "Qusai, Abu Abdu the Aleppan. You are a little hero. You afraid the administration with your behemothic acts so they dead you.''
Um Abdou the Aleppan is a baby concern of the 5-year-old war, the aboriginal sit-com produced out of rebel-held locations of Syria.
Aired in 2014 on a bounded Aleppo station, it was a animated attending at activity in the war-ravaged city, award ball as it showed association ambidextrous with aggregate from cut-offs in electricity and water, to animosity a allotment of rebels, to bombardments and violence. The adolescent actors, even as they spot-on actor characters of a acceptable Aleppo neighbourhood, accommodate a emphasis of innocence.
Qusai Abtini, the 14-year-old boy who played the husband, was dead if a missile addled the car he was in as he approved to escape Aleppo. Fresh-faced with a acceptable beam and blubbery atramentous hair, Abtini had become a bounded celebrity.
His activity and afterlife underscored the adversity of Aleppans, whose city-limits was already the bartering centre of Syria with a thriving, different ability but has now been broken to pieces by fighting, with accomplished neighbourhoods larboard in ruin. Tens of bags in the city-limits accept been dead aback the summer of 2012, if Aleppo breach into rebel- and government-held districts and the two abandon angry on anniversary other.
In contempo weeks, government armament accept anchored their annoy of rebel-held sections, aggravating to cut off the endure escape routes. Canicule afterwards Abtini's death, several dozen men marched through his home commune in a allegorical funeral, bouncing action flags and chanting "Qusai has gone to heaven. Bashar is the analgesic of my people.''
Umm Abdou the Aleppan aired in about 30 episodes, anniversary about 10 account long, on the action base Halab Today TV. It was filmed in Aleppo, even as it was subjected about circadian to bombardment. In one outtake, three girls assuming a arena jump at the complete of an explosion, again go on with their lines.
Bashar Sakka, the director, said he casting kids because accouchement are the assemblage to "the massacres committed by Assad adjoin childhood".
The appearance is steeped in the atmosphere of Aleppo, Syria's better city, demography abode in the rock alleyways of one of its old neighbourhoods, with the chat in the city's audible emphasis of Arabic. The appellation character, Um Abdou, was played by a adolescent babe called Rasha, while Abtini played her husband, Abu Abdou.
Both appearance a aptitude for banana timing, arena a academic acceptable bedmate and wife. He's arrogant and patriarchal. She's clever, aggressive and a bit ditzy, ambidextrous with neighbouring families active on top of anniversary added in abutting quarters.
In one episode, the mother of a insubordinate fighter visits, searching to ally her son to Umm Abdou's daughter. Over tea, Umm Abou tells her all her daughters are affiliated to associates of the Chargeless Syrian Army, the analogously civil insubordinate awning group. If she learns that the -to-be benedict is a "mujahid'' - an Islamic active fighter - she slyly demands a top affairs to carefully antithesis the negotiations.
In addition episode, Um Abdou decides with her girlfriends to anatomy an all-female insubordinate faction. Abu Abdou teases her, saying, "You wish to go to the foreground curve if you're abashed of cockroaches". Again he tells her there's a abrasion beneath the couch and action as she all-overs up and screams.
Another arena has Abu Abdou traveling with rebels on a raid, but Um Abdou gossips about it to all her neighbours - and her bedmate comes aback blood-soaked from an ambuscade by government armament who abstruse of the planned attack. "I admiration how anybody begin out!'' Umm Abdou muses.
"Qusai was a actual accomplished boy,'' Sakka told The Associated Press. We were searching for an able boy,'' he said from southern Turkey via Skype. "We capital him to be chargeless with ideas, and after abhorrence of Bashar Assad's administration and its ruthlessness.''
Abtini was 10 years old if accumulation protests aboriginal erupted adjoin the aphorism of President Bashar Assad erupted in March 2011. He became apprenticed circuitous in the uprising, demography allotment in anti-Assad demonstrations, generally sitting on his earlier brother's shoulders. He batten in action videos, criticising Assad's government and anecdotic Aleppo's destruction.
At the aforementioned time, he acted in academy plays. Afraa Hashem, his school's director, saw his aptitude and alien him to Sakka.
"He was actual ambitious. Already he confused from acting in plays to TV, his dreams broadened and formed on transforming what he was active through'' into his performances, she said, speaking from Aleppo via Skype.
After the TV series, Abtini had roles in bounded theatre. Endure summer, he played a insubordinate dead in fighting. As his mother weeps over his body, a man tells her: "Be blessed for him. He capital affliction and got it.''
During contempo shelling, Abtini's home was hit and his ancestor was wounded, larboard apprenticed to a wheelchair. On July 8, Abtini's ancestor absitively to forward his accouchement out of Aleppo.
But as the car Abtini was in fabricated a run down the one alley out of rebel-held locations of Aleppo, a missile addled it.
In a video of the allegorical burial a few canicule later, his ancestor in his wheelchair watches the marchers go by, captivation a placard reading, "Qusai, Abu Abdu the Aleppan. You are a little hero. You afraid the administration with your behemothic acts so they dead you.''
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