An Apple from Paradise

2010 | 75 minutes | 5.8 ★ (4)

An Apple from Paradise
  • Overview

    A pious old man, who is a proponent of suicide attackers, comes to Kabul to visit his only son, who, after the holy war had remained in the Soviet Union. He had enrolled his son in a religious school "to study the Koran and return to the village as a Mullah". In Kabul he learns that his son had decided to become a divine suicide bomber so as to go to Heaven. The film presents two different forces of the inner world of the protagonist father: paternal feelings and the holy religious ideology. The spectator witnesses how he loses his only son and holy belief. Shot in chaotic and dirty Kabul, the film portrays the incorrect interpretation of religion and the conflict of generations.

  • Release Date

    01 January 2010

  • DirectingHomayun Morowat
  • Budget

    $0.00

  • Revenue

    $0.00

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