Osama

Resource Information

The work Osama represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Missouri University of Science & Technology Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Osama

Statement of responsibility

United Artists ; Lebrocquy Fraser Productions ; NHK ; produced by Siddiq Barmak, Julia Fraser, Julie LeBrocquy ; written, directed and edited by Siddiq Barmak

Creator

• Osama (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai
• United Artists Corporation
• Barmak, Siddiq
• Fraser, Julia
• Golbahari, Marina
• Herati, Arif
• LeBrocquy, Julie
• Sahar, Zubaida

Subject

• Drama
• Families -- Afghanistan -- Drama
• Families -- Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Foreign language films -- Pushto
• Motion pictures
• Muslim women -- Afghanistan | Kabul -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Drama
• Social problem films
• Taliban -- Drama
• Teenage girls -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Widows -- Drama
• Women -- Afghanistan -- Drama
• Women -- Afghanistan | Kabul -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Drama
• Women -- Drama

Genre

• Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Foreign language films
• Motion pictures
• Social problem films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• pus
• eng
• pus
• pus

Summary

• This meticulous inquiry into the ways that ideological evil can infect, and ultimately destroy, the intimacies and small pleasures of daily life is beautiful, thoughtful, and almost unbearably sad. A widowed grandmother, mother, and daughter are facing starvation. Since the foreign doctors have been driven away, the mother's employment at the hospital ends. Thus the young daughter, at the risk of being discovered and killed, masquerades as a boy in order to earn money--a necessity since they cannot leave the house without a male escort. Snatched away from her job and sent to be indoctrinated by the Taliban, it is just a matter of time before she is given away. The Taliban's obscene wish for a world where the stringent enforcement of religious laws takes the place of human kindness is on full display, and as they employ their sadistic holy laws in the name of God, the only human response is horror
• Chronicles the true story of a young girl in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan who must disguise herself as a boy to save her family from starvation. The first feature film made in Afghanistan in the post-Taliban era

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Ebrahim Ghafuri

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG-13

Language note

Soundtrack in Pashtu with subtitles in English; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired

LC call number

PN1997.O82

LC item number

B273

PerformerNote

Marina Golbahari, Arif Herati, Zubaida Sahar

Runtime

83

Technique

live action