Blackboards (Takhté siah) (2000)

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6.9	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Samira Makhmalbaf

Starring

Bahman Ghobadi
Reeboir

Written by

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Samira Makhmalbaf

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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 bo ... (more)

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