THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO
synopsis
In September 2001, Pakistani Asif Iqbal leaves his home town of Tipton for Pakistan to meet his future wife. He invites his three friends Ruhel, Shafiq and Monir as witnesses. At the wedding, the Imam asks them to go to Afghanistan to help the people there. They arrive in Kandahar on the night of the first US bombings. The four men soon find themselves penetrating deeper into the war zone until they are finally arrested. After weeks of detainment they are flown out to Guantanamo, where they are imprisoned as potential terrorists. Although it soon transpires that there is no truth in these allegations, it is two years before Shafiq, Asif and Ruhel are able to return to Tipton, but without their friend Monir who disappeared in Afghanistan.
| international title: | THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO |
| original title: | THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO |
| country: | United Kingdom |
| sales agent: | The Works International |
| year: | 2005 |
| genre: | docu-fiction |
| directed by: | Michael Winterbottom |
| film run: | 95' |
| release date: | UK 09/03/2006, SE 05/05/2006, HU 01/06/2006, NL 01/06/2006, AT 02/06/2006, BE 07/06/2006, FR 07/06/2006, ES 260/05/2006, PT 31/08/2006, IT 15/09/2006, DE 21/09/2006, GR 05/10/2006 |
| screenplay: | Michael Winterbottom |
| cast: | Rizwan Ahmed, Farhad Harun, Waqar Siddiqui, Arfan Usman |
| cinematography by: | Marcel Zyskind |
| film editing: | Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross |
| costumes designer: | Esmaeil Maghsoudi |
| music: | Molly Nyman, Harry Escott |
| producer: | Andrew Eaton, Michael Winterbottom, Melissa Parmenter, Shahryar Shahbazzadeh |
| production: | Revolution Films |
| distributor: | Channel 4 Television Corporation (UK), CTV International (FR), Fandango Distribuzione (IT), Alta Films (ES), Falcom Media (DE) (AT), Prooptiki (GR) (CY), Elite Film (CH), Sandrew Metronome (DE, FI, SE), Budapest Film (HU) |
