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Blackboards( 2000)

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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?

    Top Billed Cast

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      Said Mohamadi

      Said

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      Behnaz Jafari

      Halaleh

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      Bahman Ghobadi

      Rebwar

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      Mohamad Karim Rahmati

      Father

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      Rafat Moradi

      Ribwar

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      Mayas Rostami

      Young boy storyteller

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      Saman Akbari

      Group leader

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      Ahmad Bahrami

      Marriage registrar

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      Mohamad Moradi

      Match maker

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      Karim Moradi

      Old man

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      Hassan Mohamadi

      Child

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      Rasool Mohamadi

      The boy porter

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      Somaye Veisee

      Little girl

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      Emre Tetikel

      Zinhan

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    A review by CRCulver

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    Written by CRCulver on Thu Sep 13 2018
    Released in 2000, <i>Blackboards</i> was the second film by Samira Makhmalbaf, daughter of acclaimed Iranian auteur Mohsen Makhmalbaf and a precocious director in her own right. As the film opens, a group of itinerant teachers lug blackboards into the mountains of Iranian Kurdistan, seeking to bring education to this illiterate, impoverished region in exchange for some meagre income. Two of the teachers quickly branch off from the group, and the film follows their adventures. Saïd (Saïd Mohamadi) falls in with a group of nomads trying to get back to their native land across the border in Ira...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

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    Keywords

    • society
    • teacher
    • poverty
    • blackboard
    • woman director
    • kurd
    • iran-iraq war