The Blackboard
- IMDb link: 0246266
- IMDb rating: 6.8 (3,032 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama, War
- Director: Bahman Ghobadi, Samira Makhmalbaf
- Cast: Said Mohamadi, Behnaz Jafari, Mohamad Karim Rahmati and others
- Release date: 1 Sep 2000
- Release year: 2000
- Runtime: 88 minutes
- Country: Iran, Italy, Japan
- Keywords: border, village, teacher, widow, contraband, iran, blackboard, f rated, title directed by female, mountain
Plot:
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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