The Kite Runner

Dec 14, 2007

2h 8m

★ 7.3

There is a way to be good again.

Overview

After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Wonderland Films

Sidney Kimmel Entertainment

Participant

Parkes+MacDonald Production

China Film Co-Production Corp.

Beijing Happy Pictures Cultural Communications Co.

Kite Runner Holdings

Ebeling Group

Neal Street Productions

DreamWorks Pictures

Mandate International

The Kite Runner Trailers

Cast

Young Hassan

Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada

Soraya

Atossa Leoni

Amir

Khalid Abdalla

Young Assef

Elham Ehsas

Baba

Homayoun Ershadi

Farid

Saïd Taghmaoui

Party Worker

Mustafa Haidari

Rahim Kahn

Shaun Toub

Young Amir

Zekeria Ebrahimi

Sohrab

Ali Danish Bakhty Ari

Ali

Nabi Tanha

Wali

Bahram Ehsas

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