One characteristic of this film is

One characteristic of this film is the explicit fidelity to Hosseini's novel, which has as its narrative nucleus the friendship between two children.Since the 2003, year of his publication (in Italy the book was published in 2004 by Piemme), Hosseini's novel had attracted the attention of Hollywood: Steven Spielberg had secured the rights to DreamWorks (which produced the film with Paramount Vantage), thinking of directing it himself, and then entrusted it in the first place to Sam Mendes and finally to Marc Forster.Download Flash Player to view this medium.Forster chose to make the film not in English, but in Dari, and after needlessly searching for young actors suitable for that role in the United States, he took on the role of children living in Afghanistan. Zekiria Ebrahimi and Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada, pupils of an elementary school in Kabul, are Amir and Hassan; actor Homayoun Ershadi (actually an architect who occasionally plays) is the father