The Kite Runner, 2007 (12A)

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Category: Film
Venue: Theatre

7.30pm
£3.50 / £3.00

 

Running Time: 122mins
Director:  Marc Forster
Starring: Khalid Abdalla, Atossa Leoni, Shaun Tubb, Sayed Jafar Masihullah Gharibzads


‘The Kite Runner’ is the film of the international bestselling book which tells the story of Amir, a well-to-do boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, who is haunted by the guilt of betraying his childhood friend Hassan, the son of his father's Hazara servant.
 

It is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan through the Soviet invasion, the mass exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States and the Taliban regime.