53 minutes

2003

THE LAST ASSYRIANS is a documentary film (53 minutes) directed by Robert Alaux and produced by Lieurac Productions on the identity, History and the current tragic situation of Assyrian Chaldean Syriac Aramean Christians, who still speak Aramaic. In this film the famous Specialist Sebastian Brock (Oxford University) tells us their old History. And Joseph Yacoub, French Scholar and ChaldoAssyrian himself, help us to understand the situation. This documentary is the result of a six years work , and of many travels and shootings in South-East Turkey (TurAbdin…), Iraq (before and after March 2003), Syria, USA and Europe. The communities that live now in France, Switzerland, Holland, Sweden or Germany are among the last Christians of Turkey, they fled this country 20-30 years ago. Today, they continue to leave Iraq. . This is the first documentary which tells the complete history of this People, from the beginning of the Aramaic language to the current Diaspora. This Documentary was successfully projected in France, England, Belgium, Lebanon, Holland, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Thailand etc. and broadcast on several TV Channels. The film has been completed in 2003 (2004 for the English version). This film received congratulations and support from Theophilus George Saliba, Syrian Orthodox Archbishop; Mar Narsai de Baz, Archbishop of the Assyrian Church of the East; Mor Samuel Aktas Archbishop of the TurAbdin; Cardinal Moussa Daoud, Patriarche Emerite d’Antioche des Syriens, Prefetto della Congregatio Pro Ecclesiis Orientalibus, managing all the Oriental Catholic Churches in Vatican; and from several Scholars , Specialists and political leaders (Yonadam Kanna, former ChaldoAssyrians Representative in the Iraqi Governing Council, P. Isho-Warda, Minister in the Iraqi Government…). Robert Alaux received an award from the Syriac League in Lebanon in September 2004 during the Symposium Syriacum gathering Specialists of the whole world ; and another from the CIDA, Center for Information and Documentation Assyria, in the Netherlands on 20th January 2005