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The Kite Runner (film)
The Kite Runner
is a 2007 American
drama film
directed by
Marc Forster
. The screenplay by
David Benioff
is based on the
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 son of his father's
Hazara
servant. 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.
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