Blackboards

Blackboards

2000
1h 25m
6.6

6.6/10

40 votes • View on IMDb
Drama History War
Overview

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-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they're mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope?

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Language: FA

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Production Information

Production Companies
Fabrica Makhmalbaf Film House Productions RAI Cinema T-Mark
Production Countries
Iran Italy Japan
Spoken Languages
Kurdish Persian

Keywords

society teacher poverty blackboard woman director kurd iran-iraq war

Quick Facts

Original Title تخته سياه
Release Date September 1, 2000
Status Released
Language FA
IMDb ID tt0246266

Cast

Said Mohamadi
Said Mohamadi

Said

Behnaz Jafari
Behnaz Jafari

Halaleh

Bahman Ghobadi
Bahman Ghobadi

Rebwar

Mohamad Karim Rahmati
Mohamad Karim Rahmati

Father

Rafat Moradi
Rafat Moradi

Ribwar

Mayas Rostami
Mayas Rostami

Young boy storyteller

Saman Akbari
Saman Akbari

Group leader

Ahmad Bahrami
Ahmad Bahrami

Marriage registrar

Karim Moradi
Karim Moradi

Old man

Hassan Mohamadi
Hassan Mohamadi

Child

Rasool Mohamadi
Rasool Mohamadi

The boy porter

Somaye Veisee
Somaye Veisee

Little girl

Key Crew

Samira Makhmalbaf
Director
Shôzô Ichiyama
Producer
Samira Makhmalbaf
Writer
Mohamad Ahmadi
Executive Producer
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Writer
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Producer
Marco Mueller
Producer