Afghanistan, 1960s

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Joseph Kessel apologizes for the old quarter of Kabul

Publication date 23/11/1967 From €100.00

Afghanistan, 1960s

Joseph KESSEL, writer and member of the French Academy, expresses, during his journey in Afghanistan, his attachment to the old quarter of Kabul, with its lively, noisy and fragrant bazaar, and its streets teeming with people, that he fears will disappear in favour of modern neighborhoods copied on the West.

Afghanistan on the road to modernity

Publication date 02/06/1965 From €100.00

Afghanistan, 1960s

In Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, traditional street scenes in the old districts rub shoulders with images of a society that is modernizing, under the impetus of King Mohamed Zaher Shah, with students in western dress attending high school and university.

Women abandon the veil in Kabul

Publication date 26/02/1961 From €100.00

Afghanistan, 1960s

Arnaud DESJARDINS explains why more and more women in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, are abandoning the wearing of the chaderi, the Islamic veil, to participate in the social and economic life of the country in full transformation.

The Islamic heritage of Afghanistan

Publication date 26/02/1961 From €100.00

Afghanistan, 1960s

Arnaud DESJARDINS presents some of the most beautiful monuments of Islam in Afghanistan. In Herat, the mosque is one of the largest in the world and the minarets of Musalla are the remains of an ancient university. Gazorgah houses the mausoleum of Khawadja Abdullah Ansari where pilgrims come to gather. And in Mazar-e-Sharif, the faithful gather in the blue mosque for Friday prayer.

The natural resources of Afghanistan

Publication date 26/02/1961 From €100.00

Afghanistan, 1960s

The majority of Afghans are farmers, as Arnaud DESJARDINS reminds us, who evokes the different cultures practiced, such as the grape, renowned throughout the world, and the most important breeding is that of the karakul sheep that produce the famous astrakan.

The Buddhas of Bâmiyân

Publication date 26/02/1961 From €100.00

Afghanistan, 1960s

Arnaud DESJARDINS takes us on a visit to the valley of Bâmiyân, in Afghanistan, to admire the two great Buddhas carved in the cliff. One of the two statues reaches 53 meters high and, in the rock of the cliff, hundreds of cells have been dug to accommodate more than 6000 monks.

The unchanging spectacle of Kabul’s old streets

Publication date 05/08/1966 From €100.00

Afghanistan, 1960s

Street scenes in Kabul, Afghanistan, which testify to an unchanging world unchanged for centuries, as in the time of the "tales of the thousand and one nights". There are millet merchants, a barber, an opium smoker, a gold blower, a dealer in dried camel dung, a Koranic class, a wool carder and a man grinding salt on a millstone.

Afghan hospitality

Publication date 26/02/1961 From €100.00

Afghanistan, 1960s

Arnaud DESJARDINS concludes his documentary by highlighting the hospitality of Afghans. While tourists are still rare in Afghanistan, there is no doubt that more and more visitors will come to discover the beauties of a country where the foreigner is welcome.

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