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Mood:
- BleakRoughSincere
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Plot:
- Coming of AgeParents and ChildrenSiblings RelationsFamily in CrisisVillage LifeMind and SoulSocietyFamily Relations more...
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Genres:
- DramaForeignNew Wave
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Time/Period:
- 90s
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Place:
- IranIraqMiddle EastMountains
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Based on:
- Remake
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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A Time for Drunken Horses, 2000
Persian, Kurdish
Iran
Profile of A Time for Drunken Horses
The mood of A Time for Drunken Horses is bleak, sincere, and rough. The plot centers around village life, a family in crisis, and sibling relations. It is a drama and foreign movie. Stylistically, A Time for Drunken Horses is New Wave. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in the mountains. A Time for Drunken Horses is set in Iran and Iraq. It happens in the 1990s. It is a remake.
Summary of A Time for Drunken Horses
Bahman Ghobadi's tragic, yet unsentimental first feature is influenced by his own childhood in Iran's Kurdistan. In a remote Kurdish village on the Iran-Iraq border, five motherless children endure hardscrabble lives, as heavily burdened by responsibility and loss as a smuggler's mule. Ayoub (Ayoub Ahmadi) and his young sister, Ameneh (Ameneh Ekhtiar-Dini) work at a bazaar to earn money, while simultaneously caring for their tiny, ill brother, Madi (Mehdi Ekhtiar-Dini), who suffers from a form of dwarfism. When a landmine kills their smuggler father, Ayoub must provide for the family, despite his young age. He joins the smugglers, carrying heavy loads on his back through the snowy mountains toward Iraq, while dodging the constant threat of ambush and mines. Pressure on Ayoub increases as poor Madi's illness worsens. An operation in Iraq is Madi's only hope, yet Ayoub's earnings barely cover the family's necessities. A possible solution arises when the children's eldest sister, Rojin (Rojin Younessi) enters an arranged marriage with an Iraqi, who promises to pay for the operation. With its sparse dialogue, rough settings, and intimate view of Kurdish life, Ghobadi's first feature film is a simply told and very powerful tale.
Details
| Language: | Persian, Kurdish |
| Country: | Iran |
| Release date: | October 2000 |
| Runtime: | 80 min |
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as Ameneh
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