
The Butterfly
2009-05-01 · Runtime unavailable · ★ 6.0
The year is 1996, about five years before September 11. But the foundations are already being laid. Because the world is a complicated place, and nothing starts just one day before. The place is Afghanistan, in the heat of civil war. Thousands of people who have lost their lives, their possessions, and their homes are waiting for the fighting to end. Yusuf and his friends, however, are going there for humanitarian aid. As Yusuf and his friends prepare to set out, Osama bin Laden is crossing the Afghan border to his new headquarters. Yusuf and his friends meet thousands of people in Afghanistan that year, and one of them is a young man who will become known to the whole world on September 11, 2001.
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- Cihan Taşkın
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- Turkey
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Ghassan MassoudMevlevi Dede
Caner CindorukYusuf
Deniz BolışıkZeynep
Şahin ÇelikLider
Münir Can CindorukKahraman/Ümit
Ferda IşılAnne
Tuncay BeyazıtAmir
Gürol GüngörDr. İsa
Serhat YiğitEsad'ın Abisi
Sonat DursunKomiser
Sümer TilmaçAşçı Rasim
Volga SorguAğabey
Cem KurtoğluPolis Müdürü
Şükrü Veysel AlankayaMilitan
Nilgün Atılgan
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