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Summary
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.
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Critics and audiences agree
Critics 64Audiences 68GoodWatch 55
Metascore64
IMDb6.8
Running time
1 h 25 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 dramas, −24 min on the typical 109
typical 10985Half of all dramas run 98–125 min.
Reach
Streams in 1 country
Released
2000
September 1, 2000
26 years ago
Genres
DramaHistoryWarLanguage
Persian
Original language
Made in
Iran
Italy
Japan
12 of 12
- SMSaid MohamadiSaid
Behnaz JafariHalaleh
Bahman GhobadiRebwar- MKMohamad Karim RahmatiFather
- RMRafat MoradiRibwar
- MRMayas RostamiYoung boy storyteller
- SASaman AkbariGroup leader
Ahmad BahramiMarriage registrar- KMKarim MoradiOld man
- HMHassan MohamadiChild
- RMRasool MohamadiThe boy porter
- SVSomaye VeiseeLittle girl
Directing · 1
- Samira Makhmalbaf Director, Writer
Writing · 2
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf Writer, Producer, Editor
- Zaheer Qureshi Story Supervisor
Production · 4
- Mohamad Ahmadi Executive Producer
- Shôzô Ichiyama Producer
- Marco Mueller Producer
- Abbas Saghazsaz Associate Producer
Sound · 2
- Mohammad Reza Darvishi Music
- Behroz Shahamat Sound
Other crew · 1
- Ebrahim Ghafori Cinematography
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