This is an unusual film of exceptional values--75 minutes long in color, with hardly any spoken dialogs. I saw this Iranian film in Farsi without English subtitles at the Early Iranian cinema retrospective on-going International Film Festival of Kerala, India. That I was watching a print without subtitles did not make a difference as there were very few lines of spoken dialogs.
This is a very accessible film for any audience to enjoy--its story and values are not merely Iranian, it's universal.
The film is set in rural Iran that had not tasted petro-dollar prosperity. The setting is on fringes of desert land, where water is scarce, rainfall scanty and hardly any blade of grass is green. Add to it wind and dust that buffets and whips man and animal and you can imagine plight of the people who live on the fringes of society.
The film is moving tale of a young teenager returning to his village with a goat--only to find his family and villagers have moved on to escape natures vagaries and that one old man remains. He gives the goat to him and goes in search of his family. Water is scarce and well water it treated with reverence and never wasted.
艾拉·奥弗比,安妮·达尔·托普,塞罗姆·埃内图,英格丽德·吉耶弗,西莉耶·布雷维克,安妮·玛丽特·雅各布森,拉尔斯·雅各布·霍尔姆,瓦尔德马尔·多麦嫩·伊尔根斯,布林贾·阿贝·本德里恩,安德琳·萨瑟尔,艾拉·博特纳-比,阿马尔·贝纳瓦斯,安妮-卡伦·希滕,诺拉·哈格斯特罗姆,纳迪亚·邦内威,玛雅·福尔德,埃亚·萨拉内瓦,阿里·阿尔巴拉赞齐,萨里·卡德尔
劳尔·卡拉米,Charles Peccia,Julie Froger,基尔特·范·朗拜博格,Rébecca Finet,艾萨图·迪亚诺·萨格娜,帕斯夸莱·当卡,Jean De Pange,Véronique Vanonckelen,Romane Parc,Madison Maire,Elizabeth Dutreilh,Malika Zerrouki,Juliette Savary,Véronique Lefort Wagner,William Bonnet,Maïmouna Cissoko,Benoît
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藤吉夏铃,高石明里,久间田琳加,中井友望,纲启永,高岛政宏,外原宁宁,优太朗,笕美和子,石仓三郎
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海伦·文森特,若西安·巴拉斯科,露德温·塞尼耶,皮埃尔·洛廷,索菲·吉耶曼,加朗·厄洛斯,马立克·兹迪,保罗·博雷佩雷,文森特·科隆布,米歇尔·马谢罗,玛丽·劳伦斯·塔尔塔斯