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DVD: Kandahar (2001); aka 'Safar e Ghandehar'. Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf. w/ Nelofer Pazira, Hassan Tantai. Mixture of movie and documentary. Shortly before the last solar eclipse of the century. an Afghanistan-born Canadian woman (Pazira) tries to reach Kandahar to save her sister from suicide. On her journey she is exhibits much of the Iranian-Afghan culture, poverty, mutilation by landmines, and the situation of women in the area. Exotic. Informs about very different issues. DVD also has a version with explanations by Nelofer Pazira. Overall rating: 7 out of 10. Hassan Tantai (aka David Belfield) is under indictment in the United States for the 1980 murder of the former Iranian diplomat Ali Akbar Tabatabai, a supporter of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. More about Belfield in the New Yorker, Issue of 2002-08-05.
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