Kandahar: Journey into the heart of Afghanistan
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 25 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 22, 2003
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: New Yorker Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Niloufar Pazira | |
Performer: | Hassan Tantai, Sadou Teymouri & Hayatalah Hakimi | |
Directed by | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | |
Screenwriting by | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | |
Composition by | Mahamed Reza Darvishi | |
Produced by | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | |
Director of Photography: | Ebraham Ghafouri |
Entertainment Reviews:
...[Makhmalbaf's] artful deployment of colour, imagery and irony frequently gives a strange otherworldliness to what, in other hands, would be straight reportage...
Sight and Sound
...The director displays talent by providing notes of absurdity and unforgettable visuals....His compensatory touches have a jaw-dropping power...
New York Times
..A powerful depiction of oppression and hardship under Taliban rule….KANDAHAR is a film of passion and immediacy…
Los Angeles Times
...One of the most visually stunning movies since Martin Scorsese's KUNDUN...
USA Today
Product Description:
Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf presents this partially fictionalized documentary that illustrates the suffering of Afghan women under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in the year 2000. The quiet, stark, powerful film follows an Afghan native, Nafas (the stunningly beautiful Noulifar Pazira), who left Afghanistan years back and got a journalism degree in Canada, upon which she built a career reporting the plight of women in oppressive nations. When she receives a letter from her sister, who is still in Afghanistan and who has decided that she will kill herself on the night of the next eclipse, Nafas decides to sneak back inside the border to rescue her. Traveling in a Red Cross helicopter to Pakistan, where she is lead on a treacherous all-night trek across an icy river and over deadly mountains, Nafas finally crosses over the border. But from there she must get to Kandahar, with only three days left before the eclipse. As a woman in Afghanistan she cannot speak out loud, travel without a husband, or show her face, elements which make her journey nearly impossible. Disguised in a heavy head-to-toe burka (the mandatory dress for women), she begins a Kafkaesque journey across the barren land, encountering obstacles both threatening and mesmerizing along the way.
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