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Original Name: Les Hirondelles De Kaboul
English Name: The Swallows Of Kabul
Year: 2019
Run Time: 81'
Language: French
Type (Colour/ Black & White): Colour
Country: France
Director: Zabou Breitman, Éléa Gobbé-Mévellec
Producer: Reginald de Guillebon, Stephan Roelants, Michel Merkt, Joëlle Bertossa
Cast: Hiam Abbass, Simon Abkarian, Swann Arlaud, Zita Hanrot
Screenplay: Sébastien Tavel, Patricia Mortagne, Zabou Breitman
Cinematographer: Nils Robin , Nicolas Debray
Editor: Françoise Bernard
Sound Designer: Eric Devulder, Pascal Villard, Bertrand Boudaud, Eric Tisserand
Music Composer : Alexis Rault
Production Designer: Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec
Production Company: Les Armateurs, Melusine Productions and Close Up Films
World Sales: Celluloid Dreams
World Sales Phone: +33 1 49 70 03 70
World Sales Email: info@celluloid-dreams.com
Zabou Breitman
Éléa Gobbé-Mévellec
Zabou Breitman
As an actress Zabou Breitmann has been working since she was four years old. After multiple acting jobs, she directed her first feature film, Beautiful Memories. The film won 3 Césars. She has directed number of feature films, and TV serials, along with plays.
Eléa Gobbe-Mévellec
After graduating in Applied Arts, Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec joined the Ecole des Gobelins in 2003. Eléa continued her career as a character animator for feature films such as Ernest And Célestine, The Day Of The Crows, and April And The Extraordinary World. The Swallows Of Kabul is her directorial debut.
The lives of two Afghani couples become fatefully entwined in this moving adaptation of Yasmina Khadra’s bestselling novel about life under Taliban control. Told beautifully through hand-drawn animation, the story opens in 1998; happily married artist Zunaira lives with husband Mohsen as Sharia law takes hold. In the wake of an accident, she finds herself imprisoned and in the custody of Atiq, the warden charged with carrying out a harsh sentence. As his interest in her grows, Atiq begins to question his fealty to the brutalist regime.
