Film for January 2009

[Writer]

The Kite Runner
in Wirksworth Town Hall on Friday 2 January at 7.30 pm. Bar opens at 7.0 pm.

The Kite Runner tells the story of Amir, a boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wazir_Akbar_Khan) district of Kabul (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabul), who is haunted by the guilt of betraying his childhood friend Hassan, the son of his father's Hazara (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazara_people) servant. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan through the Soviet invasion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Afghanistan), the mass exodus of refugees (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_refugees) to Pakistan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan) and the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States), and the rise of the Taliban (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban) regime.

Open to non-members of Wirksworth Film - £4.

[James Ogilvy]

More information for The Kite Runner...

The Kite Runner (Persian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_language): کاغذ*پران*باز - Kāğazparān Bāz or بادبادک*باز Bādbādak-bāz) is a 2007 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_in_film) Academy Award (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award)-nominated film directed by Marc Forster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Forster) based on the novel of the same name (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kite_Runner) by Khaled Hosseini (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaled_Hosseini).

Though most of the film is set in Afghanistan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan), these parts were mostly shot in Kashgar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashgar), China (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China), due to the dangers of filming in Afghanistan at the time.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kite_Runner_(film)#cite_note-0) Much of the film's dialogue is in Dari Persian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari_(Persian)) (with English subtitles) and English. The child actors are native speakers, but several adult actors had to learn Persian. Filming wrapped up on December 21 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_21), 2006 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006), and the movie was expected to be released on November 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2), 2007 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007). However, after concern for the safety of the young actors in the film due fears of violent reprisals to the sexual nature of some scenes in which they appear, its release date was pushed back six weeks to December 14 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_14), 2007. [2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kite_Runner_(film)#cite_note-1)

The Kite Runner was released on DVD on March 25, 2008.

[tonyparsons]

IT is a brilliant film

[Stella]

That's a good recommendation...thanks, Tony!

[James Ogilvy]

I went to see The Kite Runner last night and, Tony you were quite right. It is a brilliant film - from all points of view. I'd read the book but was not disappointed by the film which is rare.