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Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Nelofer Pazira, star of the feature film 'Kandahar' returns to Afghanistan to search for her childhood friend Dyana. Her first attempt to find Dyana inspired the fictional movie Kandahar. This film is the documentary account of her second journey, taken seven months after the fall of the Taliban. While searching for her friend, Nelofer unravels her past and the troubled history of her country.
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The star of the film Kandahar creates a moving memoir of life, childhood and friendship as her world collapses around her. Nelofer Pazira was born into a privileged family living in Kabul. When she was six, the Russians invaded Afghanistan and her childhood ended. Her father, a respected doctor, was imprisoned along with family and friends. Their country became a police state and the center of a bloody conflict between the Soviet army and the American-backed...
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