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Blackboards

Blackboards

Drama War History

2000, Movie, 1h 25min

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?

Country: Japan,Italy,Iran

Director:

Samira Makhmalbaf

Cast:

Bahman Ghobadi,

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Critic David Parkinson

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8

...[an] uncompromising insight into the harsh existence of the Kurdish refugees of Iran's borderlands.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Kasper Christoffer Larsen

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8

...en smuk gave ikke bare til filmelskere, men til alle der kan lide den hjertelige og samtidsaktuelle fortælling med humoren i behold.

Read full review at Cinemazone

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