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Marooned in Iraq
(2002)
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Shahab Ebrahimi | ... |
Mirza
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Faegh Mohamadi | ... |
Barat
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Allah-Morad Rashtian | ... |
Audeh
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Rojan Hosseini | ... |
Rojan
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Saeed Mohammadi | ... |
The Teacher
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Iran Ghobadi | ... |
Hanareh
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Hossein Rashid-Ghamat |
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Fathollah Sa'edi |
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Bahram Sarbazi |
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During the war between Iran and Iraq, a group of Iranian Kurd musicians set off on an almost impossible mission. They will try to find Hanareh, a singer with a magic voice who crossed the border and may now be in danger in the Iraqi Kurdistan. As in his previous films, this Kurdish director is again focusing on the oppression of his people. Written by up and out
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Country:
IranRelease Date:
29 May 2003 (Germany) See more »Also Known As:
Songs of My Motherland See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$6,696 (USA) (25 April 2003)Gross:
$141,216 (USA) (31 October 2003)Company Credits
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I went to see this at a festival as a good-for-you topical film - kind of like eating brussels sprouts or something (apologies to those for whom brussels sprouts are a particular favorite). The filmmaker is an Iranian Kurd, and the film involves a journey from Iranian Kurdistan into Iraq.
Much to my surprise, it inspires a fair amount of laughter even in the context of extreme difficulties: a tent refugee camp for orphans in knee-deep mountain snow; voices and faces (never shown, but instead hidden in shame) disfigured by chemical weapons attacks and so on. These are present simply as part of the story's background, rather than like the shrill preachiness more typically seen on U.S. television news reports. Though I suppose one can't really fault journalists for being intensely serious when reporting on that part of the world.
The story is slim: someone is looking for something. They don't find it (her actually), but find other things which turn out to be of value. The man and his two (grown) sons have a larger-than-life bluster and recurring pratfalls which are a bit reminiscent of the Three Stooges. Laughter is good medicine, and these people have certainly earned the right to a heavy dose thereof. One example of the silliness: Our three travelers have their motorbike, clothes and musical instruments stolen by highway bandits disguised as police. Later, they get a ride on a truck and encounter two guys running through the snow in pastel-colored long undies and handcuffed together. They turn up a few times, always claiming to be cops but no one believes them, and they can't get any help.
Overall, an unexpected pleasure. Worth seeing.