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*One of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die*TO SAVE HER FAMILY A GIRL MUST BECOME A BOYAfter the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction o...
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Osama (Dari: اُسامه, romanized: Osamah) is a 2003 drama film made in Afghanistan by Siddiq Barmak. The film follows a preteen girl living in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime who disguises herself as a boy, Osama, to support her family.
In Afghanistan, during the Taliban regime, women are forbidden to work and to walk on the streets without the company of a male. The teenager girl Osama (Marina Golbahari) cuts her hair and dresses like a boy to get a job and support her widow mother and grandmother.
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- Drama
- Siddiq Barmak
- 2003-06-27
Currently you are able to watch "Osama" streaming on Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, Epix Amazon Channel, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel, MGM Plus, Amazon Prime Video with Ads or for free with ads on Pluto TV. It is also possible to rent "Osama" on Amazon Video online and to download it on Amazon Video.
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- Siddiq Barmak
- PG-13
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Osama lives in daily terror that she will be discovered as a girl by the Taliban and lynched to death. The masquerade becomes more difficult when the Taliban recruit all the local boys for school, which includes military training and religious teaching of the Quran.
Feb 2, 2021 · Shot on location in Kabul with non-actors found on the streets, Siddiq Barmak’s ‘Osama’ (2003) is a powerful, modern distillation of neorealism and vérité that verges on documentary, telling the story of a girl’s struggle to survive in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan–on the brink of starvation, her family decides she must disguise ...
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Osama (English Subtitles) Marina Golbahari stars as a girl who pretends to be a boy in order to get a job in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Osama, direcrted by Siddiq Barmak, marks the first film to come out of Afghanistan since the fall of that repressive regime.
