Blackboards
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2000
1h 25m
Persian
Drama, History, War
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Blackboards
Movie
2000
1h 25m
Persian
Drama, History, War
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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Cast
Said
Halaleh
Rebwar
Father
Ribvar
Young boy storyteller
Group leader
Marriage registrar
Match maker
Old man
Child
The boy porter
Little girl
Zinhan
Directed By: Samira Makhmalbaf
Written By: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Samira Makhmalbaf
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CRCulver
6 years ago
Released in 2000, Blackboards was the second film by Samira Makhmalbaf, daughter of acclaimed Iranian auteur Mohsen Makhmalbaf and a precocious director in her own right. As the film opens, a group of itinerant teachers lug blackboards into the mountains of Iranian Kurdistan, seeking to bring More
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