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Kandahar

Kandahar

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Summary

Documentary drama starring Nelofer Pazira. A journalist who fled Afghanistan as a child returns to her homeland to console her suicidal sister and encounters the grim realities of life under the Taliban regime.

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Review

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

David Parkinson

Made before the events of 11 September 2001, this piercing insight into the plight of the Afghan people - most notably, the women - under the Taliban regime is a must-see experience. It's impossible not to be moved and angered by Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf's hybrid of documentary and road movie (loosely based on a real-life incident), in particular by the sights exiled journalist Nelofer Pazira witnesses while trying to reach her suicidal sister in Kandahar. Yet what emerges here is less a condemnation of extreme patriarchy than an assertion that the spirit of sisterhood will somehow survive the monstrous repression. It's the toll of human misery caused by war that concerns Makhmalbaf, not political or religious correctness, and that's a salient lesson for us all.

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6.8/10

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Credits

Cast

rolenameNafasNelofer PaziraTabib SahidHassan TantaiKhakSadou TeymouriHayatHayatalah Hakimi

Crew

rolenameDirectorMohsen Makhmalbaf

Details

Theatrical distributor

ICA Projects

Released on

2001-11-16

Languages

English | Pashto | Persian | Polish

Guidance

Contains violence.

Available on

video and DVD

Formats

Colour

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