| American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan | |
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| Directed by | Jean-Daniel Lafond |
| Written by | Jean-Daniel Lafond |
| Produced by | Nathalie Barton |
| Starring | Jean-Daniel Lafond Hassan Tantai |
| Cinematography | Vahid Farouz Alberto Feio |
| Edited by | Babalou Hamelin |
| Music by | Charles Papasoff |
Production company | InformAction Films |
| Distributed by | InformAction Films |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
| Countries | Canada Iran |
| Languages | Persian English |
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, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in 1980. [2] [3]
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.
