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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 18 July 2022)
Syria's new Chinatown.
The famous Chinese actor and director Jackie Chan is filming some of
the scenes from his new action film in a war-torn section of Syria. The
subject of the film, though, is a rescue operation in Yemen.
Chan is filming now in the Hacer el-Esved town near Damascus, which
was freed from ISIS control in 2018 and has been a ghost town ever
since. The film is about a Chinese operation to free its citizens held in
Yemen in 2015. Chan is not starring in the film, just producing it. His
decision to film in Syria was unexpected and his crew plans to complete
the filming there in a few days.
He's been in the neighborhood before.
One of the crew members, Rawad Shahin, explained that "we transformed
a war-torn area in Syria into a film studio. To do so from scratch would
have been very expensive but here it's ready and at much less cost." The
Chinese Ambassador in Syria visited the set, where there are many tanks
positioned, and put a sign reading "peace and love" in front of one of the
tanks.
The film takes place in 2015 when hundreds of people from China and
10 other countries were rescued in the midst of the Yemen civil war in
"Operation House". At that time, Chinese warships were in the region
battling pirates and effected the rescue, which was a prestigious
accomplishment for China. Actually, in the film, the name of the
fictitious country is "Poman". As for Hacer el-Esved, since the Syrian
government took it back from ISIS in 2018, very few of its former
residents have returned.
Hacer el-Esved (Hajar al-Aswad) is at bottom-center.
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