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In Afghanistan, during the Taliban regime, women are forbidden to work and to walk on the streets without the company of a male. The teenage girl Osama cuts her hair and dresses like a boy to get a job and support her widow mother and grandmother. There is no men in her family, since her father and...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Osama (Motion picture)
Other Authors: Barmak, Siddiq (Screenwriter), Golbahari, Marina (Actor), Khajeh, Mohamad Nader (Actor), Herati, Arif, 1990- (Actor), Sahar, Zubaida (Actor), Ghafori, Ebrahim (director of photography.), Darvīshī, Muḥammad Riz̤ā, 1955- (composer (expression))
Format: Video
Language:Pushto
Language Notes:In Pashto with yellow English subtitles (credits and dialogue).
Published: [Afghanistan] : Barmak Film, [2003]
Subjects:
Taliban > Drama.
Taliban.
Teenage girls > Drama.
Families > Drama.
Women > Drama.
Widows > Drama.
Women > Afghanistan > Kabul > Social conditions > 20th century > Drama.
Muslim women > Afghanistan > Kabul > Social conditions > 20th century > Drama.
Kabul (Afghanistan) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Families.
Manners and customs.
Muslim women > Social conditions.
Teenage girls.
Widows.
Women.
Women > Social conditions.
Afghanistan > Kabul.
1900-1999
Webcast
Internet videos.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Social problem films.
Films sociaux.
Films de fiction.
Vidéos sur Internet.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Swank Digital Campus)
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Summary:In Afghanistan, during the Taliban regime, women are forbidden to work and to walk on the streets without the company of a male. The teenage girl Osama cuts her hair and dresses like a boy to get a job and support her widow mother and grandmother. There is no men in her family, since her father and her brother were killed in previous Afghan wars, and the family has no means of survival. When Osama, disguised as a boy, is called by the Taliban to join the school and military training, the boy Espandi tries to help her.
Item Description:Production credits from yellow English subtitles and IMDb.
Originally produced as an Afghani motion picture in 2003.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 video file (83 min.)) : sound, color
Audience:MPAA rating: PG-13; for mature thematic elements.
Awards:Winner, 2003 Cannes Film Fesival: AFCAE Award, Cannes Junior Award, Golden Camera-Special Mention-Siddiq Barmak ; 2004 Golden Globe: Best Foreign Language Film.
Production Credits:Director of photography, Ebrahim Ghafori ; composer, Mohamad Reza Darvishi.