Blackboards (2002)

Name: Blackboards
Genre: Drama, History, War
Released: 2020-06-28
Duration: 1 hr 25 min
Rating: 66
Cast: Said Mohamadi, Behnaz Jafari, Bahman Ghobadi, Mohamad Karim Rahmati, Rafat Moradi

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NR 1 hr 25 minDec 6th, 2002Drama, 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?

StarringSaid MohamadiBehnaz JafariBahman Ghobadi

DirectorSamira Makhmalbaf

WritersSamira MakhmalbafMohsen Makhmalbaf

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