American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan

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).[1] Belfield has confessed to assassinating a former Iranian diplomat, who supported the Shah of Iran, in 1980.[2][3]

American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan
Canadian film poster
Directed byJean-Daniel Lafond
Produced byNathalie Barton
Written byJean-Daniel Lafond
StarringJean-Daniel Lafond
Hassan Tantai
Music byCharles Papasoff
CinematographyVahid Farouz
Alberto Feio
Edited byBabalou Hamelin
Production
company
InformAction Films
Distributed byInformAction Films
Release date
  • 22 April 2006 (2006-04-22) (Canada)
Running time
75 minutes
CountryCanada
Iran
LanguagePersian
English

Belfield unexpectedly appeared playing an exiled American political activist in the 2001 film Kandahar.[1][2][4] Lafond then traveled to Iran to film the documentary about him.

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