Blackboards (2000)

Blackboards (2000)

2000-09-01 Iran, Italy, Japan 85 Min. PG-13
6.6 39 votes

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?

Cast

Behnaz Jafari is Halaleh
Rafat Moradi is Ribwar
Mayas Rostami is Young boy storyteller
Young boy storyteller
Saman Akbari is Group leader
Group leader
Ahmad Bahrami is Marriage registrar
Marriage registrar
Mohamad Moradi is Match maker
Match maker
Karim Moradi is Old man
Rasool Mohamadi is The boy porter
The boy porter