Le piège Afghan (2011)
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Marie-Josée Croze, David Kammenos, Samuel Le Bihan, Christian Charmetant
A French military doctor is recruited to use her old friendship with a Pashtun leader in Afghanistan.
The story
Nadia, a doctor in her thirties at a French military base in Afghanistan, serves a coalition of major Western powers. When her convoy is ambushed during a mission to a strategically important village, she and a Tajik-origin soldier are captured by Taliban led by Pakistani Abdullah. Nadia is released through the intervention of Pashtun leader Hassan Walli, whom she met in Paris ten years earlier. Colonel Leroy of France’s Directorate-General for External Security then asks her to draw closer to Hassan, regarded as a moderate opposed to Al-Qaeda.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Nadia, a doctor in a French military base in Afghanistan, is in her thirties and works for the coalition bringing together the major Western powers. Sent on a mission to a village in a strategically important location, her convoy is ambushed. Nadia and a soldier of Tajik origin are captured by a group of Taliban led by Abdullah, a Pakistani. As the soldier is having his throat cut, Nadia is miraculously released thanks to the intervention of a Pashtun leader, Hassan Walli, whom she met ten years earlier in Paris. Using their friendship, Colonel Leroy of the Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE) then asks the young woman to get closer to Hassan, who is seen as a moderate opposed to Al-Qaeda...
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