A ghost town since a 2018 operation to flush out jihadists, Hajar al-Aswad near the Syrian capital has come back to life as the location of a Jackie Chan-produced action movie.
"Home Operation" is inspired by China's 2015 evacuation of Chinese and other foreign citizens from the war in Yemen, an operation that was seen as a landmark for Beijing.
Speaking to reporters as his crew installed their equipment and tanks in hastily altered livery moved into position, director Yinxi Song confirmed the film's propaganda credentials. A red banner in three languages was unfurled for the small ceremony and another that read "Peace & Love" was propped up on the front of a tank.Hajar al-Aswad, which means "black rock" in Arabic, was once a densely populated Damascus suburb that lies next to the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmuk.
Swathes of Hajar al-Aswad were completely levelled, however, turning the neighborhood into a sinister sprawl of grey, gutted buildings. "Building studios similar to these areas is very expensive, so these areas are considered as low-cost studios," he said.
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