"Taliban Country" airs in Germany

The reason-for-being of this blog is a powerful documentary, made in 2004, by Australian filmmaker Carmela Baranowska. Even after two years, it stands alone in its portrayal of remote, central Afghanistan. Journalists still do not spend long in Uruzgan unless "embedded." We have heard from European journalists who recently ventured into this province, but were not able to safely report from there, and returned quickly to Kandahar.

Even Kandahar, according to the Sunday Times Afghanistan correspondent Christina Lamb, is pretty off-limits at night, after a recent wave of murders and suicide bombings there.

Taliban Country airs on Sunday, Monday and possibly Tuesday (please check local listings), on WDR, German television. We hope to hear feedback from Germany, as we did from the Netherlands a couple of months ago.