American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan (2006)
- Directed by
- Jean-Daniel Lafond
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 52 min
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This documentary follows a Canadian filmmaker who travels to Iran to interview an American political activist in exile. The activist has confessed to killing a former Iranian diplomat in 1980. The film explores his life and reasons for his actions.
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What happens
American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan is a film, directed by Jean-Daniel Lafond, about an exiled American political activist named Dawud Salahuddin (also known as David Belfield and Hassan Abdulrahman). Belfield has confessed to assassinating a former Iranian diplomat, who supported the shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in 1980. Belfield unexpectedly appeared playing an exiled American political activist in the 2001 film Kandahar. Lafond then traveled to Iran to film the documentary about him. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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