Blackboards

Release Date:

Dec 6, 2002

Running Time:

1:25

Genre:

Drama

Director:

Samira Makhmalbaf

Cast:

Bahman Ghobadi	Reeboir
Said Mohamadi	Said
Behnaz Jafari	Halaleh

Producers:

Mohamad Ahmadi

Language:

English

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Itinerant Kurdish teachers Said and Reeboir find many uses for the blackboards they tote, some of which actually pertain to education. Others include doubling as a gurney to carry a sick man, as shields from the warfare along the Iran-Iraq border and as a dowry so Said can wed the widow Halaleh . When Halaleh's son and a group of his peers tag along with Said and Reeboir, they try to impart their knowledge to the boys amid the surrounding chaos.

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