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The Children of Heaven (1997) | User Rating
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Original title: Bacheha-Ye aseman
Release Date
Jan 22, 1999 (USA)
DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 24, 2002
Budget $180,000
MPAA Rating
PG
Running Time
1 hour, 29 minutes
Country Iran
Studio Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, Miramax
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Other Titles
• The Children of Heaven (1999)
• Bacheha-Ye aseman
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Genre: Drama, Comedy, Experimental, Deception
Tagline: A Little Secret...Their Biggest Adventure
Plot: In this simple family drama from Iran, two children invent an intricate plan to conceal the loss of a pair of shoes. Ali (Amir Farrokh Hashemian) and his sister Zhara (Bahare Seddiqi) are living in a poor neighborhood. Their mother is suffering from illness and their father is overworked and underpaid. When Ali is sent out to pick up his sister's shoes, a blind street peddler accidentally swipes them. Afraid that he will get a beating if his parents find out, he and Zhara concoct a plan by which she will wear Ali's sneakers to school in the morning and he will wear them to school in the afternoon. But the plan has its flaws because Ali is late to school everyday and his principal threatens to expel him. In a final act of determination, Ali enters a race to win the third place prize, a new pair of sneakers. Majidi's acclaimed film is an example of a current trend in Iranian cinema where children are used as central characters in order to circumvent censorship issues. His later film THE COLOR OF PARADISE about a little blind boy received similar international critical attention. CHILDREN OF HEAVEN received an Academy Award Nomination in 1998 for Best Foreign Film.
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