The Road to Guantanamo Movie
This engrossing docudrama follows three young British Muslims Shafiq Rasul (Riz Ahmed), Rhuhel Ahmed (Farhad Harun) and Asif Iqbal (Afran Usman) who travel to Pakistan for a relative's wedding. By a strange quirk of fate they find themselves mistaken for Taliban and Al-Qaeda operatives and captured by U.S. forces, while crossing the Afghanistan border. As a result, they are transported and held for three years in the prison camp at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba.
Movie Info
- Year:
- 2006
- IMDB Rating:
- 7.7
- IMDB Votes:
- 3095
- Countries:
- UK
- Genres:
- Drama, Documentary
- Tags:
-
Afghanistan, Prison, Wedding, Torture, Mistaken identity, Interrogation, Pakistan, Guantanamo, Prisoner of war, Interview
- Domestic:
- $326,876 (21.7%)
- + Foreign:
- $1,182,112 (78.3%)
- = Worldwide:
- $1,508,988
- Opening
Weekend: - $61,138 (15 theaters, $4,075 average) % of Total Gross: 18.7%
- Release:
- 25 theaters