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Certificate 12A

Cast Khalid Abdalla Homayon Ershadi Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada Atossa Leoni Zekeria Ebrahimi

Directors Marc Forster

Screenwriters David Benioff

Running Time 128 minutes

The Kite Runner
Performances soar in Afghan-set epic

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Plot
In San Francisco, novelist Amir (Abdalla) reflects back on his childhood in Kabul, Afghanistan, and the terrible events that befell him and his servant/best friend Hassan (Mahmidzada) before the Soviet invasion in 1979.

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