Blackboards
2000 · 85 MIN · IMDB 6.8 · 2,969 VOTES · DIR. Samira Makhmalbaf
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?
Dialogue Timeline — 821 lines
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00:00:17 MAKHMALBAF FILM HOUSE
00:04:52 And your wife?
00:07:14 I want to go to the top.
00:10:12 Next he greets his mother
00:13:53 Would you like to learn?
00:16:07 I can hear voices.
00:18:13 Let us pass, we're wiped out.
00:20:38 you have to sit down.
00:22:58 Give me a piece of bread.
00:24:47 Drink!
00:27:35 Let's go and ask for her hand right away.
00:31:56 Open your mouth.
00:33:58 They washed it and split it up
00:37:34 Don't cry, your mother's coming.
00:42:37 Spare me, God...
00:47:06 Run!
00:51:19 Children!
00:55:50 Two.
00:59:26 You don't want to?
01:04:07 Break the syllables up.
01:10:59 What's happened?
01:15:00 He's tricked us, I know it.
01:18:22 Go and find her.
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