Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan’s lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they’re mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope? |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 7.0/10 | |
Released: | September 1, 2000 | |
Runtime: | 88 min | |
Genres: | Drama War | |
Companies: | Leisure Time Fabrica Makhmalbaf Film House Productions RAI | |
Cast: | Behnaz Jafari Bahman Ghobadi Said Mohamadi Mohamad Karim Rahmati | |
Crew: | Mohsen Makhmalbaf Samira Makhmalbaf Zaheer Qureshi | |
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