
The Last Ambassador

The Afghan ambassador in Vienna, Manizha Bakhtari, has found herself in a bizarre situation since the Taliban took power: she represents a country whose old government fled and whose new Taliban government has no international recognition. Under increasingly difficult financial and personal conditions, she decides to stand up to the Taliban and continue her courageous fight for the rights of Afghanistan’s women and girls as an ambassador, true to her motto “peace is not the absence of war, but the presence of justice”.
Filmdaten
- Category
- Documentary
- Financing
- Nationaler Film
- Format
- Digit, 90 Min
- Distribution
- FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
- Admissions
- 5.617
- Funding Film Institute
- 194.450 €
- Share of total production costs
- 26 %
- Funding ÖFI+
- 203.000 €
- Share of total production costs
- 27 %
- Television investment
- 100.000 €
- tax_funding_program
- ÖFI, ÖFI+
- Status
- im Kino
- Film location
- Vienna, Tadjikistan, Canada
- Shooting time
- August 2023 - June 2024
- Days of shooting
- 30
- Start of shooting
- 08.08.2023
- Completion
- Winter 2024/2025
- Funding institutions Austria
- Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Zukunftsfonds, Land Oberösterreich, Land Salzburg
Credits
- Producer
- Arash T. Riahi, Peter Drössler, Sabine Gruber, Nathalie Halla
- Director
- Natalie Halla
- Script-concept
- Natalie Halla
- DOP
- Natalie Halla, Judith Benedikt AAC, Jordan Bryon
- Editor
- Birgit Förster
- Sound engineer
- Andreas Hamza, Zakia, Tong Zhang, Tjandra Warsosumarto, Sergey Martynyuk, Claus Benischke-Lang, Lara Zill, Sandor Gyurkovics, David Cook
- Sound design
- Atanas Tcholakov, Nils Kirchhoff
- Protagonists
- Manizha Bakthari
- Music
- Karwan Marouf
- Green Film Consultant
- Valentin Renoldner
- German Title
- Die Letzte Botschafterin
- Television investment
- ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)
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