Arte could not have had a better idea than to broadcast on its platform, until September 11,
Afghanistan, a country ravaged by war
, a German documentary in four parts extremely well done, which will make you understand everything about contemporary history from Afghanistan. With gusto, directors Mayte Carrasco and Marcel Mettelsiefen bring us to life and understand the last sixty years of the history of the “Kingdom of Insolence” (to use the title of the magnificent work by Michael Barry), cemetery of empires (the British in the 19th century, the Soviet in the 20th, the American in the 21st).
The voice-over comments, images and words of the main actors and witnesses fascinate us.
From the happy reign of King Zaher Chah (who was received with great pomp by General de Gaulle in Paris) in the 1960s, until the country was abandoned by NATO.
Passing through five wars: the Soviet invasion and the resistance of the Afghan countryside to the communist regime of
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