Osama

Mar 24, 2004

1h 23m

★ 7.0

To save her family a girl must become a boy

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Hubert Bals Fund

NHK

LeBrocquy Fraser Productions

Barmak Film

Makhmalbaf Film House Productions

Swipe Films

Osama Trailers

Cast

Osama

Marina Golbahari

Aspnadi

Arif Herati

Mother

Zubaida Sahar

Mullah

Mohammad Nadir Khwaja

Jadi

Nader Khwaja

Ajmal

Malik Akhlaqi

Grandmother

Hamida Refar

Mohammad Nabi Nawa

Gol Rahman Ghorbandi

Milk Man

Mohammad Nabi Nawa

Son of Sick Old Man

Amin Nadem

Sick Old Man

Eli Jaan

Foreign Female

Elza Bogova

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