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Blackboards

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Sep 01, 20001h 25minIR
6.6
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Synopsis

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?

TitleBlackboards
RealesedSep 01, 2000
WriterZaheer Qureshi
DirectorSamira Makhmalbaf
CountryIran
CompaniesFabrica
Said Mohamadi

Said Mohamadi

Said
Behnaz Jafari

Behnaz Jafari

Halaleh
Bahman Ghobadi

Bahman Ghobadi

Rebwar
Mohamad Karim Rahmati

Mohamad Karim Rahmati

Father
Rafat Moradi

Rafat Moradi

Ribwar
Mayas Rostami

Mayas Rostami

Young boy storyteller
Saman Akbari

Saman Akbari

Group leader
Ahmad Bahrami

Ahmad Bahrami

Marriage registrar
Mohamad Moradi

Mohamad Moradi

Match maker
Karim Moradi

Karim Moradi

Old man
Hassan Mohamadi

Hassan Mohamadi

Child
Rasool Mohamadi

Rasool Mohamadi

The boy porter
Somaye Veisee

Somaye Veisee

Little girl
Blackboards
Blackboards
Blackboards
Blackboards
Blackboards