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A New Day in Old Sana'a (2005) More at IMDbPro »

• One of the actors, an Austrian, had to be replaced because he was stabbed when an Iraqi attacked several Europeans just weeks before production began.
  
  
• Casting the lead actress proved very difficult as most Yemeni women worried that appearing in a film would hurt their prospects of marriage. A Lebanese actress was cast.
  
  
• On the first day of shooting in Feb. 2004, a group of Islamic extremists stormed the set and stopped production. Soldiers had to guard the set after this incident.
  
  
• The Ministry of Culture granted a $40,000 subsidy after it approved the script. It would later barred the finished film from being shown in Yemen.
  
  
• The first feature film ever shot in Yemen.
  
  

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