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Release Date:
1 September 2000 (Italy)
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Plot:
Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran...
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This is Not a Film – review
(From The Guardian - Film News. 24 March 2012, 5:09 PM, PDT)
The Song of Sparrows
(From The Hollywood Reporter. 11 February 2008)
(From The Guardian - Film News. 24 March 2012, 5:09 PM, PDT)
The Song of Sparrows
(From The Hollywood Reporter. 11 February 2008)
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symbolism and harshness
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Cast
(in credits order) | Said Mohamadi | ... | Said |
 | Behnaz Jafari | ... | Halaleh |
 | Bahman Ghobadi | ... | Reeboir |
| Mohamad Karim Rahmati | ... | Father |
| Rafat Moradi | ... | Ribvar |
| Mayas Rostami | ... | Young boy storyteller |
| Saman Akbari | ... | Group leader |
| Ahmad Bahrami | ... | Marriage registrar |
| Mohamad Moradi | ... | Match maker |
| Karim Moradi | ... | Old man |
| Hassan Mohamadi | ... | Child |
| Rasool Mohamadi | ... | The boy porter |
| Somaye Veisee | ... | Little girl |
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| Samira Makhmalbaf | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Mohsen Makhmalbaf | ||
| Samira Makhmalbaf | ||
| Zaheer Qureshi | story supervisor | |
Original Music by | |||
| Mohammad Reza Darvishi | |||
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| Ebrahim Ghafori | |||
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| Mohsen Makhmalbaf | |||
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Marzieh Makhmalbaf | .... | assistant director (as Marzieh Meshkini) | |
| Mojtaba Mirtahmasb | .... | assistant director | |
| Kave Moeenfar | .... | assistant director | |
Sound Department | |||
| Behroz Shahamat | .... | sound | |
Other crew | |||
| Babak Karimi | .... | consultant | |
| Said Mohamadi | .... | consultant | |
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| Takeshi Kitano | .... | special thanks | |
Production CompaniesDistributors
- Filmmuseum Distributie (2001) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
- Leisure Time Features (2002) (USA) (theatrical)
- A-Film Home Entertainment (2003) (Netherlands) (VHS)
- Artificial Eye (UK) (subtitled)
- Irfan Film (2010) (Turkey) (TV)
- Kimstim Films
- Mars Distribution (France)
- Mongrel Media (Canada)
- Vértigo Films (Spain)
- Wellspring Media (2003) (USA) (VHS)
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Australia:85 min | France:84 min | New Zealand:84 min | Spain:88 min | UK:85 min
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Australia:PG | France:U | New Zealand:PG | Spain:13 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:PG | Singapore:PG | Singapore:M18 (DVD rating) | Portugal:M/12 (Qualidade)
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I have nothing against slow movies -- for instance kiarostami is a huge favorite of mine. But I have to admit, this film really pushes the slow-and-obtuse envelope. it's mainly the script. the teachers encounter various nomads and desperately harangue them to hire them as teachers... when people refuse, they just repeat themselves again and again, and it seems that nobody really listens to anyone else. it's a study in harshness. it leans heavily on symbolism, and you feel that the whole thing is totally constructed by the filmmaker, that no respect at all is being paid to naturalism or the kinds of reactions that people would likely have in a situation like this. so, if you're really excited by a symbol-filled, quite stark time, you will appreciate this. I wasn't up for it.