Kite Runner banned from release in Afghanistan

By 2008-01-16T10:49:00

Based on the best-selling novel by US-based Afghan writer Khaled Hosseini, the film depicts a young boy's rape and scenes of conflict between members of the Pashtun and Hazara tribes. Director Marc Foster shot the film in western China, close to the borders of Afghanistan and Pakistan, at the end ...

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