The Land of the Enlightened

The Land of the Enlightened (2016)

How children master their lives in war-torn Afghanistan by engaging in ingenious commerce.

TMDb

6.0

16/03/2016 • 1h 23m
original-title

The Land of the Enlightened

status

Released

production-companies

Sciapode

Savage Film

Fastnet Films

Beetz Brothers Film Production

Submarine

ZDF/Arte

Canvas

Interkerkelijke Omroep Nederland (IKON)

Eyeworks

Prime

original-language

English

budget

-

revenue

-

A group of Kuchi children are living in a minefield around Bagram airfield, Afghanistan. They dig out anti-personal mines in order to sell the explosives to child workers mining in a Lappis Lazulli mine. The trajectory of the blue precious stones goes towards Tajikistan and China, through an area controlled by child soldiers. When they are not waging their own mini-wars in the daily madness of life in Afghanistan, the children are fleeing away in their personal fantasies and dreams, while the American soldiers are planning their retreat...

production-countries

Belgium

Afghanistan

Netherlands

Ireland

Germany

spoken-languages

Persian

Russian

English

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