Takhté siah

6.3/10 from 13 votes

Director: Samira Makhmalbaf

Date of release: 01 Sep 2000

Description

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?

Extra

Runtime	85 minute
Producer	Rai Cinemafiction Makhmalbaf Productions Fabrica
Language	普通话 فارسی
Themes	woman director poverty society human nature iranian new wave
Actors	Bahman Ghobadi Behnaz Jafari Said Mohamadi Mohamad Karim Rahmati Rafat Moradi Mayas Rostami Saman Akbari Ahmad Bahrami Mohamad Moradi Karim Moradi Hassan Mohamadi Rasool Mohamadi Somaye Veisee