American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan

American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan
Canadian film poster
Directed by	Jean-Daniel Lafond
Produced by	Nathalie Barton
Written by	Jean-Daniel Lafond
Starring	Jean-Daniel Lafond Hassan Tantai
Music by	Charles Papasoff
Cinematography	Vahid Farouz Alberto Feio
Edited by	Babalou Hamelin
Production company	InformAction Films
Distributed by	InformAction Films
Release dates	22 April 2006 (Canada)
Running time	75 minutes
Country	Canada Iran
Language	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, 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.

References

1. American Fugitive:The truth about Hassan, InformAction
2. Lafond's new film hits hot buttons, CBC, April 26, 2006
3. An American Terrorist: He's an assassin who fled the country. Could he help Washington now?, New Yorker (magazine), August 5, 2002
4. Airbrushing a killer, National Post, May 2, 2006

External links

• American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan at the Internet Movie Database