Osama

Name: Osama
Genre: Drama, War
Released: February 6, 2004
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 83
Cast: Marina Golbahari, Mohamad Nader Khadjeh, Zubaida Sahar

2004

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation (MGM) | Release Date: February 6, 2004 | PG-13

Starring: Marina Golbahari, Mohamad Nader Khadjeh, Zubaida Sahar

Summary: A 12-year-old Afghan girl and her mother lose their jobs when the Taliban closes the hospital where they work. Feeling she has no choice, the mother disguises her daughter as a boy. Now called Osama, the girl embarks on a terrifying and confusing journey as she tries to keep the Taliban from finding out her true identity. (United Artists)

Director: Siddiq Barmak

Genre(s): Drama, War

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 83 min

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Lisa Schwarzbaum

The movie is a rare uncensored postcard from a ruined place, a document at once depressing and hideously beautiful that sketches the real hardships of trampled people -- specifically women -- with authority and compelling simplicity. Read full review

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David Denby

The movie is an outright miracle. [8 March 2004, p. 92]

Marc Savlov

Osama begins in fear and ends in terror. In between there's all manner of hopelessness, deprivation, and death, which is to say that as the first film to come out of a post-Taliban Afghanistan, it's practically a documentary. Read full review

Dallas Observer Melissa Levine

For the most part the film is a miracle of accomplishment, elegant and bold and artful in a world devoid of resources. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Raw and wretchedly current, it is a story that packs a cruel emotional wallop. Read full review

Empire David Parkinson

The performances are credible, but set-pieces like the water-cannoning of a procession of burkha-clad protesters are also impeccably judged. Read full review

Jami Bernard

Rough around the edges, but effectively presents the quandary of women during the repressive religious regime. Read full review

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Mud

Sep 10, 2007

women used to experience safety and freedom in the time of taliban and the regime was not6 evil as being presented in the western media to justify the killing of innocent people in Afghanistan by America after they themselves conducted the twin tower blasts see loose change to know the truth.

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