Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Now let's hear about a war movie that's being filmed as the war happens all around. The Iraqi army and Kurdish forces are battling the Islamic State for control of the city of Mosul. About 50 miles away in the city of Erbil, a Kurdish filmmaker is shooting a drama about some of those who gave their lives in the struggle. NPR's Peter Kenyon visited one of the film sets. UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Unintelligible). PETER KENYON, BYLINE: On the ground floor of a small hospital in Erbil, a film crew squeezes into a corridor to shoot a scene in which a soldier helps his sick, young son to the bathroom. UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Action. KENYON: The film's working title is "A Dream Before Dying." And director Fekri Baroshi says it's based on real-life Iraqi Kurdish soldiers whose job is literally to handle death every day - the bomb technicians who disarm and remove the mines, roadside bombs and booby traps that litter the territory seized by Islamic
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