| American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan | |
| Director: | Jean-Daniel Lafond |
| Producer: | Nathalie Barton |
| Starring: | Jean-Daniel Lafond Hassan Tantai |
| Music: | Charles Papasoff |
| Cinematography: | Vahid Farouz Alberto Feio |
| Editing: | Babalou Hamelin |
| Studio: | InformAction Films |
| Distributor: | InformAction Films |
| Runtime: | 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, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 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.