Photographie:
Marcel ZyskindMusique:
Harry EscottActeurs·trices:
Riz Ahmed, George W. Bush, William Meredith, Sara Stewart, Tony Blair, Demetri Goritsas, Tom Whitecross, Adam James, James Buller, Duane HenryVOD (1)
Résumés(1)
In September 2001, the mother of Pakistani Asif Iqbal returns to Tripton in England. She has found a bride for his son in a village not far from Faisalabad. A few days later, Asif goes to the Punjab to meet the woman he is to marry. In need of witnesses for the marriage, he calls his friends Ruhel, Shafiq and Monir in England to invite them to the wedding. The four young men meet in Karachi, where they attend a mosque with Shafiq's Pakistani cousin. The Imam asks them to go to Afghanistan to help the people there. The bus fare is cheap and Afghanistan sounds like an adventure to the four friends. After an exhausting journey they arrive in Kandahar at night. It is the night of the first US bombing raid on Afghanistan. The US troops have begun their offensive against the Taliban in retaliation to the attacks of September 11. The four men move on to Kabul, where they fall ill and are obliged to stay on. They set off again, hoping to get back to Pakistan, but soon find themselves penetrating deeper into the war zone until they are finally arrested. After weeks of detainment they are flown out to Guantanamo, the US base on Cuba, where they are imprisoned as potential terrorists. The secret service believes the young men to be somehow associated with Mohammed Atta and Osama Bin Laden. Although it soon transpires that there is no truth in these allegations, it is two years before Shafiq, Asif and Ruhel are able to return to Tripton. To this day there is still no trace of Monir, whom the friends lost in Afghanistan. This film makes use of archive footage, interviews and dramatised scenes to recreate the authentic story of their odyssey. (Berlinale)
(plus)Acteurs·trices
Riz Ahmed
Grande-Bretagne
Meilleurs films :
The Night Of (2016) (série)
Rogue One : A Star Wars Story (2016)
Night Call (2014)
George W. Bush
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Curveball (2020) - i.a.
Die Hard 4 - Retour en enfer (2007) - i.a.
The Big Short : Le casse du siècle (2015) - i.a.
William Meredith
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Green Zone (2010)
Mensonges d'état (2008)
28 semaines plus tard (2007)
Sara Stewart
Grande-Bretagne
Meilleurs films :
Batman Begins (2005)
Miracle Landing on the Hudson (2014) (téléfilm)
Agatha Christie : Poirot (1989) (série)
Tony Blair
Grande-Bretagne
Meilleurs films :
The Deal (2003) (téléfilm)
Official Secrets (2019) - i.a.
Omagh (2004) (téléfilm)
Demetri Goritsas
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Rush (2013)
Il faut sauver le soldat Ryan (1998)
La Mémoire dans la peau (2002)
Tom Whitecross
Meilleurs films :
Sherlock (2010) (série)
Houdini (2014) (téléfilm)
Austenland (2013)
Adam James
Grande-Bretagne
Meilleurs films :
Much Ado About Nothing (2011) (pièce de théâtre filmée)
Les Enquêtes de Morse (2012) (série)
Jonathan Creek (1997) (série)
James Buller
Grande-Bretagne
Meilleurs films :
Jonathan Creek (1997) (série)
Inspector Lynley Mysteries: In Divine Proportion (2005) (téléfilm)
The Grid (2004) (série)
Duane Henry
Grande-Bretagne
Meilleurs films :
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Ghosted (2011)
Captain Marvel (2019)