The Kite Runner (film)
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| The Kite Runner | |
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| Directed by | Marc Forster |
| Produced by | Laurie MacDonald Sam Mendes Walter F. Parkes Mark Sourian |
| Written by | Khaled Hosseini (novel) David Benioff (screenplay) |
| Starring | Khalid Abdalla Zekeria Ebrahimi Homayoun Ershadi Ahmad Mahmidzada |
| Cinematography | Roberto Schaefer |
| Editing by | Matt Chesse |
| Distributed by | DreamWorks Paramount Vantage |
| Release date(s) | November 2007 |
| Country | USA |
| Language | Dari / English |
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The Kite Runner is a 2007 film directed by Marc Forster based on the eponymous novel by Khaled Hosseini. Though most of the novel is set in Afghanistan, these parts of the movie were mostly shot in Kashgar, China due to the dangers of filming in Afghanistan at the time of the making of the movie.[1] Filming wrapped up on December 21, 2006 and the movie is expected to be released on November 2nd, 2007. The film's dialogue is in Dari (with English subtitles), and most of the actors involved with the film, including the child actors, are native speakers.
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[edit] Plot
- For full plot details, please see "The Kite Runner".
The plot of the movie follows that of the novel. In abstract, it tells the story of Amir, a well-to-do Pashtun boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, who is haunted by the guilt of betraying his childhood friend Hassan, the son of his father's Hazara servant. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan through the Soviet invasion, the mass exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the Taliban regime.
[edit] Cast
- Khalid Abdalla - Amir
- Ali Dinesh - Sohrab
- Zekeria Ebrahimi - Amir as a child
- Homayoun Ershadi - Baba
- Atossa Leoni - Soraya
- Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada - Hassan as a child
- Nasser Memarzia - Zaman
- Shaun Toub - Rahim Kahn
[edit] References
- ^ French, Howard W. (31 December, 2006). Where to Shoot an Epic About Afghanistan? China, Where Else? (English). New York Times. Retrieved on 2007-02-15.
