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An Apple from Paradise, is a 2010 Saudi movie, directed by Homayun Morowat, and starring Hashmat Fanaei, Rajab Gussainov, Mohaiuddin Safa. with a runtime of 75 minutes.
An Apple from Paradise is a powerful Arabic-language film set in war-ravaged Kabul that probes the collision between parental love and extremist religious ideology. A devout old man — himself a proponent of suicide attacks — travels to the Afghan capital to visit the son he enrolled in a religious school years ago to study the Quran. What he finds shatters him: his son has resolved to become a suicide bomber, convinced it is his path to heaven. The film charts the father's agonizing internal conflict as paternal instinct wars with the ideology he has always upheld. Shot amid the chaos and ruin of Kabul, it offers an unflinching examination of how religion can be weaponized across generations — and the devastating cost of that distortion.
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