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Blackboards (2000)

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Original title: Takhté siah


Release Date
• USA: Oct 25, 2000
• UK: 29 Dec 2000
DVD Release Date
• R1: Feb 24, 2004

Official Website:
Blackboards Website

Running Time
1 hour, 25 minutes

Country Iran, Italy, Japan

Production Companies
Makhmalbaf Productions, Fabrica, Rai Cinemafiction, T-Mark

Studio Fabrica Films, Makhmalbaf Productions, RaiCinema, T-Mark

More info on IMDb.com

Other Titles
• Blackboards
• The Blackboard



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Genre: Drama

Plot: A group of male teachers crosses the mountainous paths of the remote Iranian Kurdistan region. Carrying large blackboards on their backs, they wander from village to village in search of students. The sudden menacing sound of overhead helicopters forces the men to run and seek refuge from an unseen enemy ... One teacher, Reeboir, ventures

away from the group and confronts a group of adolescent boys who who

dangerously transport contraband goods between Iran and Iraq.

Reeboir tries to convince the boys of the advantages of learning to read and write, but none of them are interested. There is no time for reading. They are too busy risking their lives to survive ... Said, another teacher also now traveling alone, arrives in a seemingly deserted village.

No one responds to his calls soliciting his services as a teacher. He persists, but is greeted only by slamming doors and windows ... Said later meets a group of 100 or so old men accompanied by a sole young woman and child. They, too, are closed and uninterested in learning.

Tired and hungry, the old men aimlessly continue their search to return to their native land to die in peace ... One of the old men feels he can only find peace if his young widowed daughter, Halaleh, marries before his death. Said has only his blackboard to

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 Directed by
Samira Makhmalbaf
Sib, Panj é asr, Lezate divanegi
 Written by
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Sib, Panj é asr, The Day I Became a Woman
Samira Makhmalbaf
Sib, Panj é asr, Lezate divanegi
 Cast
Said Mohamadi
Delbaran
Behnaz Jafari
Khanei ruye ab, Bidar show, Arezoo!
Bahman Ghobadi
Bad ma ra khahad bord, Turtles Can Fly, Time for Drunken Horses
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 Music By
Mohammad Reza Darvishi
Kandahar, Osama, 11'09''01 - September 11



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