The Black Tulip (2010 film)

The Black Tulip is a 2010 film set in Afghanistan directed by novice filmmaker Sonia Nassery Cole.

According to the films director, Sonia Nassery Cole, a few weeks before the movie was to begin filming in Afghanistan, Taliban militants caught Zarifa Jahon, an actress Cole said she had wanted to cast in the film, and cut off her feet as punishment. Cole then cast herself in the lead role instead. When questioned about the lack of evidence about the event, Cole later claimed that the actress had told her in a telephone call about the amputations, and said that the woman asked her to leave her alone for her own safety. However, Latif Ahmadi, the head of the Afghan Film Organization, said he thought Coles statement was propaganda for the film and he didnt believe it had happened. According to an article in The New York Times, many others in the film industry in Kabul had said they had never heard of such an actress nor of such an episode.According to Cole, the films cinematographer, a producer and a set designer had all abandoned her in the middle of production. Michael Carney, the set designer, who had worked on the film in Afghanistan for two months, said he left four days before the film completed shooting. I could feel death, said Keith Smith, the original cinematographer. I didnt sign up for that. ........

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