Osama
To save her family a girl must become a boy
After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a preteen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother.
Crew and Cast
Siddiq BarmakDirector
Marina GolbahariOsamaArif HeratiAspnadi
Zubaida SaharMother
Mohammad Nadir KhwajaMullah
Nader KhwajaJadi
Malik AkhlaqiAjmal · Shahied (voice)Hamida RefarGrandmother
Gol Rahman GhorbandiMohammad Nabi Nawa
Mohammad Nabi NawaMilk Man
Amin NademSon of Sick Old Man
Eli JaanSick Old Man
Elza BogovaForeign Female
Gholaam Sekhi SedighiPoor Man
Henry JordanMale Foreign Reporter
Najibeh HamdardMullah's Wife
Nahid RefaahMullah's Wife
Bibi Khan AnaaMullah's Wife
Navaab KhanJudge
Moalem KhanSpokesperson of the Jugge
Zin AldinSchool Teacher
Mehraab KhoshnevisHospital Manager
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Info
- Status
- Released
- Released
- 24 March 2004
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- TMDB score
- 7.0 / 10 (137 votes)
Production
- Director
- Siddiq Barmak
- Writers
- Siddiq Barmak
- Studios
- Hubert Bals Fund, NHK, LeBrocquy Fraser Productions
- Countries
- Afghanistan, Iran, Ireland
Box Office
- Budget
- $46,000.0
- Revenue
- $3.9M
- Profit
- $3.9M
- Return
- 85.0×
Languages
- Original
- Persian
- Spoken
- Hungarian, Pushto, French, Persian, English, Arabic