The Swallows of Kabul
(2019)
★ 7.7 IMDb · 229 votes
Year: 2019
Runtime: 81 мин
Country: France, Luxembourg
Director: Zabou Breitman, Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec
Cast: Симон Абкарян, Зита Анро, Сванн Арло, Хиам Аббас, Jean-Claude Deret, Sébastien Pouderoux, Serge Bagdassarian, Michel Jonasz, Pascal Elbé
Plot
Summer 1998—Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. One day, a foolish gesture causes life to take an irrevocable turn.
In the ruins of a silently sad city, under the hot summer sun of 1998 Kabul and the Taliban rule, various characters struggle to overcome a cruel reality marked by oppression and suffering. On the one hand, the young couple in love, Mohsen and Zunaira, dream of a better future, while, on the other hand, the despondent prison warden, Atiq, can only pray for his terminally-ill wife, Mussarat. Will the tireless swallows of Kabul ever return home?