| Description |
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.. |
| Series |
MGM DVD |
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MGM DVD.
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| System Details |
DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby digital mono; widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.85:1. |
| Cast |
Marina Golbahari, Mohamad Nader Khajeh, Mohamad Arif Harati, Zubaida Sahar. |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Ebrahim Ghafori ; composer, Mohamad Reza Darvishi. |
| Event |
Originally produced as an Afghani motion picture in 2003. |
| Note |
Credits from subtitles and the film's entry on the IMDb. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: Rated PG-13 for mature thematic elements. |
| Summary |
This meticulous inquiry into the ways that ideological evil can infect, and ultimately destroy, the intimacies and small pleasures of daily life is beautiful, thoughtful, and almost unbearably sad. A widowed grandmother, mother, and daughter are facing starvation. Since the foreign doctors have been driven away, the mother's employment at the hospital ends. Thus the young daughter, at the risk of being discovered and killed, masquerades as a boy in order to earn money--a necessity since they cannot leave the house without a male escort. Snatched away from her job and sent to be indoctrinated by the Taliban, it is just a matter of time before she is given away. The Taliban's obscene wish for a world where the stringent enforcement of religious laws takes the place of human kindness is on full display, and as they employ their sadistic holy laws in the name of God, the only human response is horror. |
| Contents |
Title/A demonstration -- Dying hospital -- Girls to boys -- Out in the streets -- Job for the boy -- Prayer time -- Under the rainbow -- Taliban youth -- Manly ablutions -- Neighbor's wedding -- Too feminine for trees -- Punishment -- Death to the infidels -- Wedded away -- Mullah's sad wives -- End credits. |
| Note |
Special features: Sharing hope and freedom: Siddiq Barmak interview [featurette] (22 min.); Theatrical trailer (2 min.); Previews (7 min.); Recommendations [text feature]. |
| Awards |
Winner, 2003 Cannes Film Fesival: AFCAE Award, Cannes Junior Award, Golden Camera-Special Mention-Siddiq Barmak ; 2004 Golden Globe: Best Foreign Language Film. |
| Language |
In Pashtu with English subtitles; closed captioned. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Local Note |
WNPLFFDVD |
| Subject |
Taliban -- Drama.
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Teenage girls -- Drama.
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Families -- Drama.
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Women -- Drama.
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Widows -- Drama.
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Women -- Afghanistan -- Kabul -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Drama.
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Muslim women -- Afghanistan -- Kabul -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Drama.
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Kabul (Afghanistan) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Social problem films.
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Fiction films.
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Feature films.
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Foreign films.
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Motion pictures, Pashtu.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Added Author |
Barmak, Siddiq. Screenwriter. Director.
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Fraser, Julia. Producer.
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LeBrocquy, Julie. Producer.
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Golbahari, Marina. Actor.
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Khajeh, Mohamad Nader. Actor.
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Herati, Arif, 1990- Actor.
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Sahar, Zubaida. Actor.
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Darvīshī, Muḥammad Riz̤ā, 1955- Composer.
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United Artists Corporation.
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LeBrocquy Fraser Productions.
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Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai.
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Barmak Film.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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MGM Home Entertainment Inc.
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| ISBN |
0792860918 |
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9780792860914 |
| Standard No. |
027616908094 |
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883904127086 |
| Music No. |
1006646 MGM Home Entertainment |
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4006745 MGM Home Entertainment |
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