Blackboards
Takhté siah
2000, Film, 88 min, Drama, War, Persian, Iran, MoviePedia score 66
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?
Directed by Samira Makhmalbaf
Cast
- Said Mohamadi as Said
- Behnaz Jafari as Halaleh
- Bahman Ghobadi as Reeboir
- Mohamad Karim Rahmati as Father
- Rafat Moradi as Ribvar
- Mayas Rostami as Young boy storyteller
- Saman Akbari as Group leader
- Ahmad Bahrami as Marriage registrar
- Mohamad Moradi as Match maker
- Karim Moradi as Old man
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