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| Genre/Form: | Foreign films Motion pictures, Persian DVD-Video discs Feature films Fiction films Foreign language films Video recordings for the hearing impaired Drama |
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| Material Type: | Videorecording |
| Document Type: | Visual material |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Abbas Kiarostami; Marin Karmitz; Mahmoud Aydin; Bihzād Dūrānī; Mahmoud Kalari; Peyman Yazdanian; New Yorker Films.; MK2 Productions.; Centre national de la cinématographie (France); New Yorker Video (Firm) |
| ISBN: | 1567302688 9781567302684 |
| OCLC Number: | 50617778 |
| Language Note: | In Farsi with optional subtitles in English. |
| Notes: | All information from subtitles. Based on an idea by Mahmoud Aydin. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1999. Special features: Theatrical trailer (2 min.); New Yorker Films [text feature], previews (6 min.). |
| Credits: | Photography, Mahmoud Kalari ; editor, Abbas Kiarostami ; music, Peyman Yazdanian ; English subtitles, Ian Burley. |
| Cast: | Behzad Dourani. |
| Awards: | Winner, 1999 Venice Film Festival: 'CinemAvvenire' Award, Best Film-Abbas Kiarostami; FIPRESCI Prize, International Competition-Abbas Kiarostami; Grand Special Jury Prize-Abbas Kiarostami. |
| Target Audience: | Not rated. |
| Description: | 1 videodisc (ca. 118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Details: | DVD; widescreen presentation, aspect ratio compatible with 16/9 televisions, 4/3 televisions letterboxed. |
| Contents: | Single tree -- Looking for lost treasure -- Welcome engineer -- Serving tea -- Hold the line -- Two wishes -- Higher ground -- Three uncles -- Back to the hill -- Cat's out of the bag -- Good and evil -- Some fresh milk -- This is useless -- Another call -- Let's be friends again -- Buried alive -- Can you see her? -- Where are my colleagues? -- Fetching the medicine -- End. |
| Series Title: | International cinema. |
| Other Titles: | Wind will carry us Bad ma ra khahad bord |
| Responsibility: | A New Yorker Films release ; MK2 Productions ; Marin Karmitz et Abbas Kiarostami présentent avec la participation de Centre National de la Cinématographie ; a film by Abbas Kiarostami ; director, Abbas Kiarostami ; screenplay, Abbas Kiarostami ; produced by Marin Karmitz, Abbas Kiarostami. |
| Local System Bib Number: | 212829 |
Abstract:
A group of men from the city traverse the rural Iranian countryside, looking for the village of Siah Dareh, following directions such as "turn left at the big tree on top of the hill," seemingly lost. The driver, respectfully called "Engineer" by the villagers, is in this remote location to record a funeral ritual that will follow the death of a woman reputed to be more than 100 years old. As he waits and she rallies, he becomes a figure of some amusement in the valley--whenever his cell phone beeps, he charges to higher ground in his Land Rover in order to get proper reception. And as he waits to complete his task, he is transformed from a nosy outsider into a reverent observer, seeing all the transient beauty and eternal wonder of the human experience in one poor, small, rural village.
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