EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based Le Pacte has boarded Afghan-French director Siddiq Barmak’s The Postman as international sales agent as the film wraps shooting in Germany.
Set in Kabul in 1992, the screenplay by Asad Hussain and David Wahab, tells the story of a postman, played by the Iraqi-Kurdish actor-director Hussein Hassan Ali, in his daily struggle for mere survival in a city on the brink of far-reaching, dramatic and political upheavals.
The co-production between Germany’s Epik Filmproduktion and Mitos Film with France’s l’Atelier Documentaire and Turkey’s MRK Films began principal photography at the beginning of February on location in Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan, and moved to Germany for the final scenes, which were shot on a former construction waste landfill in Arkenberge north of Berlin.
Barmak’s previous features are the Golden Globe winner Osama, which premiered in Cannes in 2003, and the black comedy Opium War in 2008.
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