The Kite Runner (2007)
Genres: Drama
Cast: Khalid Abdalla, Zekeria Ebrahimi, Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada, Homayoun Ershadi, Atossa Leoni, Shaun Toub, Saïd Taghmaoui, Abdul Salaam Yusoufzai, Ali Danish Bakhtyari, Maimoona Ghezal, Abdul Qadir Farookh, Khaled Hosseini, Camilo Cuervo, Nasser Memarzia, Mohamed Amin Rahimi, Chris Verrill, Amar Kureishi, Nabi Tanha, Elham Ehsas
The Kite Runner is a 2007 American drama film directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by David Benioff and based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Khaled Hosseini. It tells the story of Amir, a well-to-do boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul who is tormented by the guilt of abandoning his friend Hassan. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan through the Soviet military intervention, the mass exodus of Afghan refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the Taliban regime.