Year: 2003
Genre:
Drama
Category: Movie
IMDB Rating: 7,4 (NEVAZUT)
Country: Afghanistan, Japan, Ireland
Language:
Director: Siddiq Barmak
Writer: Siddiq Barmak
Composer: Mohammad Reza Darvishi
Producer: Siddiq Barmak, Julia Fraser, Julie LeBrocquy, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Makoto Ueda
Actors: Marina Golbahari, Khwaja Nader, Mohammad Arif Herati, Zubaida Sahar, Mohamad Haref Harati, Hamida Refah, Gul Rehman Ghorbandi, Mohammad Nadir Khwaja
Description: The Taliban are ruling Afghanistan, they being a repressive regime especially for women, who, among other things, are not allowed to work. This situation is especially difficult for one family consisting solely of three women representing three successive generations. All the males in their family have died in various Afghani wars. The mother had been working as a nurse in a hospital, but regardless of she not being allowed to work, the Taliban has cut off funding to the hospital. The mother and grandmother make what they feel is the only decision they can to survive: they will have the preteen daughter masquerade as a boy so that she can get a job to support the family. The daughter, feeling powerless, agrees despite being scared as if the Taliban discover her masquerade, she is certain they will kill her. Partly as a symbolic measure, the daughter plants a lock of her now cut hair in a pot so that her lost femininity can flourish. The only people outside the family who know of the ...
Comments:
Duration: 83 minutes (at 25 frames per second)
File path: Z:\03673 - Osama (2003)\Osama.avi
Filesize: 696 MB
Video: DivX 3 Low - resolution: 592x320
Audio:
Subtitles: Croatian, English