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The Blackboard

Takhté siah (2000)

Drama, War | Iran

Director: Samira Makhmalbaf

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Rating: 6.8/10

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-o...

Actors

Writer: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Samira Makhmalbaf

Producer: Mohammad Ahmadi, Shôzô Ichiyama

RUNTIME: 88 min

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