Blackboards

Sep 01, 2000 1h 25m
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?
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Crew
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Status
Released
Production Countries
Iran
Italy
Japan
Spoken Languages
Kurdish
Persian
Videos

Cast

Behnaz Jafari
Halaleh
Rafat Moradi
Ribvar
Mayas Rostami
Young boy storyteller
Saman Akbari
Group leader
Cast
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