Blackboards (2000)
Takhté siah (original title)

Cast

Cast overview:
	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

Storyline

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? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>  

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