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The kite runner - Shaun Toub, Khalid Abdalla, Mason Hsieh, Marc Forster
Threat advisory: Elevated - Significant risk of entertaining activities
Movie propaganda
There is a way to be good again.
The story is about the bond that develops in Afghanistan between a privileged youth and the son of his father's servant, around a love of kite flying. The relationship fractures when one boy is set upon by toughs during a kite-flying tournament and the other boy does nothing to help him. Years later, a reunion amidst the wreckage of the Taliban regime reconnects the youths.
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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda
- Film Afghanistan drama Taliban kite master servant tournament fly author escape San Francisco
Persons of interest
- Shaun Toub ... Rahim Kahn
- Khalid Abdalla ... Amir
- Mason Hsieh ... Kite flyer
- Atossa Leoni ... Soraya
- Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada ... Hassan as a child
- Homayon Ershadi ... Baba
- Big Spence ... Aaron Hill
- Ehsan Aman ... Wedding Singer
- Ali Dinesh ... Sohrab
- Zekeria Ebrahimi ... Amir as a child
- Nasser Memarzia ... Zaman
- Khaled Hosseini .... Author
- David Benioff .... Screenwriter
- Marc Forster .... Director
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- Awards and film festivals:
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS - Oscars) 2008: Nominated: Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score (Alberto Iglesias)
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association (Golden Globes) 2008: Nominated: Original Score (Alberto Igleslias), Foreign Film
- NB: Dari and English language dialogue with English subtitles
- Studios and distributors:
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Special Agent Matti
Theatrical report
Ok, so life in Afghanistan sucks. If it's not the Russians, it's the Taliban. If it's not the Taliban, it's the Yanks. If it's not the Yanks, it's the warlords. If it's not the warlords, it's the desert. I'm surprised that there even is an Afghanistan. Aren't you glad that you live in a privileged First World socialist Western democracy?
While The kite runner is an interesting story it doesn't get the struggle across as well as Turtles can fly (Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand). Good but definitely not great. I'm sure that the book was better.
The Afghanistan, drama movie The kite runner is directed by Marc Forster and stars Shaun Toub, Khalid Abdalla, Mason Hsieh.
Security censorship classification
M (Moderate themes and violence, infrequent moderate coarse language)
Surveillance time
128 minutes (2:08 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
Film: 17 January 2008
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