In this audio NPR report by Kim Masters, there are fears about the safety of the children who star in Marc Forster‘s The Kite Runner due to its exposure of “deep ethnic divisions” as well as a scene depicting a sexual assault. The film will not be released in Afghanistan “but it won’t be long before the DVDs show up” in Kabul, says Masters, which may provoke “reprisals from members of the Taliban.”

September 20, 2007by Jeffrey Wells4 Comments