CAST & CREW:
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Written & Directed by:
Majid Majidi
Producers: Majid Majidi & Fou Ad Nahas
Cast:
Hossein Abedini
Mohammad Reza Najj
Zahra Bahrami
Hossein Rahimi
Gholam Ali Bakhshi
Release Date:
January 25, 2002 (NY/LA)
MPAA Rating:
(language and brief violence)
Running Time:
91 minutes
Genre:
Art/Foreign, Drama
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SYNOPSIS:
| From the Montreal Film Festival comes the award
winning Baran, a new film from Oscar-nominated director
Majid Majidi. Baran takes place in the years following
the 1989 Russian withdrawal from Afghanistan, amid
the rise of the Taliban. Set in Iran, it tells the
story of an Afghani refugee father whose injury threatens
his family'e future, a child too weak to feel his
shoes, and a natiev Aranian son forced to trade places
with an immigrant. But, the young man's burning resentment
is about to be transformed by a surprising discovery,
the immigrant is a young woman. For the first time
in his life, he's in love. But, he can't let on that
he knows her secret. Now, his devotion will lead him
to a choice that will change his live forever. |
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