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Osama (2004)
Directed by Siddiq Barmak
“To save her family a girl must become a boy”
Drama · 1h 23m
After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a preteen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother.
Cast
Marina Golbahari
Osama
A
Arif Herati
Aspnadi
Z
Zubaida Sahar
Mother
M
Mohammad Nadir Khwaja
Mullah
N
Nader Khwaja
Jadi
Malik Akhlaqi
Ajmal
H
Hamida Refar
Grandmother
G
Gol Rahman Ghorbandi
Mohammad Nabi Nawa
M
Mohammad Nabi Nawa
Milk Man
A
Amin Nadem
Son of Sick Old Man
E
Eli Jaan
Sick Old Man
E
Elza Bogova
Foreign Female
Crew
- Director
- Siddiq Barmak
- Writer
- Siddiq Barmak
- Director of Photography
- Ebrahim Ghafori
- Original Music Composer
- Mohammad Reza Darvishi
- Editor
- Siddiq Barmak
- Producer
- Siddiq Barmak, Julia Fraser, Julie LeBrocquy, Makoto Ueda
Details
- Release date
- 2004-03-24
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- FA
- Spoken languages
- Hungarian, Pushto, French, Persian, English, Arabic
- Countries
- Afghanistan, Iran, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Production
- Hubert Bals Fund, NHK, LeBrocquy Fraser Productions, Barmak Film, Makhmalbaf Film House Productions, Swipe Films
- Budget
- $46,000
- Box office
- $3,910,519