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    Love and War in Kabul

    Love and War in Kabul 2009 Germany Documentary color 87min Farsi Digi Beta
    Hossein and Shaima have loved each other since childhood. As teenagers they were separated by war. They meet again in Kabul in the late 1990s. Poverty forces Hossein to fight in the war. A shell splinter leaves him paralyzed. Shortly afterwards, Shaima is sold in marriage to a man 40 years her senior. Shaima, who is the man’s fourth wife, falls pregnant. But Shaima’s husband still owes half the dowry, and so her father brings her back into the constraining partriarchal fold of the family, where she lives today with her five-year-old daughter. This situation doesn’t prevent the two lovers from seeing each other as much as possible ─ even though this means going against their families’ hard and fast rules. They both dream of living together in peace. Caught on the horns of a dilemma, and in constant fear of revenge on the part of the male members of both families who adhere to the harsh tribal laws handed down from the Middle Ages, Hossein and Shaima struggle under the most difficult circumstances imaginable to hold on to their love. Hossein’s and Shaima’s self-determined love for each other breaks traditional family taboos.

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    Love and War in Kabul

    Helga REIDEMEISTER was born in Halle (Saale) in 1940. After graduating from Cologne, she studied painting at the College of Arts in Berlin and worked as a restorer after her graduation in 1965. She became a social worker in the Berlin satellite town “Maerkisches Viertel.” It was the women living there who inspired her to make films. She gained an international reputation as a director with her graduation film Is This Fate?. Her award-winning films, such as God’s Cell ─ A Women’s Prison and Texas ─ Kabul, reveal the balance of power within society that determines the lives of individuals, especially those of women.

    Love and War in Kabul

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    1982 Karola Bloch - Then A Woman Takes Fate in Her
    Own Hands
    1983 Ernst Und Karola Bloch - The Tübingen Period
    Eyes Fixed on The Money
    1987 Shooting in Berlin
    1988 Walking Tall
    1991 In The Splendour of This Happiness
    1992 Rodina Means Home
    1994 Injuries - From Human to Animal to Target 1997 Women in Black
    1999 Staying in Life
    1998 Lights From Afar
    2001 Gotteszell – A Women’s Prison
    2004 Texas – Kabul
    2009 Love And War In Kabul

    Director: Helga REIDEMEISTER

    Producer: Helga REIDEMEISTER

    Screenplay: Helga REIDEMEISTER

    Cinematography: Lars BARTHEL

    Sound: Ansgar FRERICH, Sebastian TESCH

    Language: Farsi

    Print Source: AUTLOOK Filmsales GmbH

    AUTLOOK Filmsales GmbH

    trappelgasse 4/17, 1040 Vienna, Austria

    E-mail: festival@autlookfilms.com

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