
Breaking the Silence: Music in Afghanistan
Breaking the Silence: Music in Afghanistan
Breaking the Silence: Music in Afghanistan Free Online HD on Lookmovie. All since the Soviet invasion in 1979 musicians have lived under restrictions in Afghanistan, before Mujahedin and Taliban tightened the reins even more. This documentary explores the position of music through more than twenty years of the country’s history. We meet musicians in Afghanistan and in exile, in addition to both believers who reject music and those having it as a central part of their religion.
- Genre: Music, Documentary
- Country: United Kingdom
- Director: Simon Broughton
- Cast: Aziz Ghaznawi, Mashinai, Khaled Arman, Shiraz Siddiqi, Naqib Ahmad, Naghma, Walayad Khan, Amir Jan, Aziza Feroz Afghan, Mike Wooldridge,

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