This is an unusual film of exceptional values--75 minutes long in color, with hardly any spoken dialogs. I saw this Iranian film in Farsi without English subtitles at the Early Iranian cinema retrospective on-going International Film Festival of Kerala, India. That I was watching a print without subtitles did not make a difference as there were very few lines of spoken dialogs. This is a very accessible film for any audience to enjoy--its story and values are not merely Iranian, it's universal. The film is set in rural Iran that had not tasted petro-dollar prosperity. The setting is on fringes of desert land, where water is scarce, rainfall scanty and hardly any blade of grass is green. Add to it wind and dust that buffets and whips man and animal and you can imagine plight of the people who live on the fringes of society. The film is moving tale of a young teenager returning to his village with a goat--only to find his family and villagers have moved on to escape natures vagaries and that one old man remains. He gives the goat to him and goes in search of his family. Water is scarce and well water it treated with reverence and never wasted.
罗伯特·德尼罗,凯西·莫拉蒂,乔·佩西,弗兰克·文森特,尼可拉斯·科拉山多,特雷萨·萨尔达娜,马里奥加洛,弗兰克·阿多尼斯,Joseph Bono,Frank Topham,Lori Anne Flax,查尔斯·斯科西斯,Don Dunphy,Bill Hanrahan,Rita Bennett,Bernie Allen,吉恩·拉贝尔,Jimmy Lennon Sr.,谢伊·达芬,Eddie Mu
奥马尔·本·哈依德,马尔万·阿卜杜拉,穆罕默德·艾哈迈德,Mohammed Ahmed,Mansoor Al-Fili,Khalifa Albahri,Hassan Yousuf Alblooshi,Saeed AlHarsh,Abdullah Almaqbali,Ibrahim Almusharaakh,Salem Altamimi,Abdullah Bin Haider,Majid Al Ja