Afghan Muscles

Afghan Muscles is a 2006 Danish documentary film directed by Andreas Ml Dalsgaard about bodybuilding in Afghanistan.

Afghan Muscles is the first featurelength film directed by Danish filmmaker Andreas Ml Dalsgaard born 1980, who received a BA in social anthropology from the University of Aarhus and became a student director at the National Film School of Denmark in 2005. Dalsgaard became interested in the subject during a 2003 visit to Kabul, when he noticed large posters of scantily clad male bodybuilders around the Afghan capital. Dalsgaard spent three years following a group of bodybuilders for the film, which he later described as a culture of young men seeking modernity in their very own way, trying to be successful and gain a name and fame in the cultural chaos of postwar Kabul.During a presentation of Afghan Muscles at the 2007 AFI Fest, Dalsgaard acknowledged that his film intentionally avoided highlighting any involvement by Afghan women in bodybuilding, either as athletes or audience members. Its men looking at men, he stated. ........

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