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Overview

User Rating:
8.0/10   5,705 votes
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Director:
Majid Majidi
Writer:
Majid Majidi (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
22 January 1999 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Tagline:
A Little Secret...Their Biggest Adventure
Plot:
Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre... more | full synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 10 wins & 2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(4 articles)
Bollywood hasn't recognised my talent: Rituparna
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The blogs of my blog
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User Comments:
Beautiful! more (96 total)

Cast

  (in credits order)
Mohammad Amir Naji ... Ali's Father (as Amir Naji)
Amir Farrokh Hashemian ... Ali (as Mir Farrokh Hashemian)

Bahare Seddiqi ... Zahra
Nafise Jafar-Mohammadi ... Roya
Fereshte Sarabandi ... Ali's Mother
Kamal Mirkarimi ... Assistant (as Kamal Mir Karimi)
Behzad Rafi ... Trainer (as Behzad Rafiee)
Dariush Mokhtari ... Ali's Teacher
Mohammad-Hasan Hosseinian ... Roya's Father
Masume Dair ... Roya's Mother
Kambiz Peykarnegar ... Race Organizer
Hasan Roohparvari ... Race Photographer
Abbas-Ali Roomandi ... Shoemaker
Jafar Seyfollahi ... Green Grocer
Qolamreza Maleki ... Salt Seller
Zahra Mirzai ... Zahra's Teacher
Sara Zamani ... Trainer
Mohammad Haj-Hosseini ... Mosque Servant
Kazem Asqarpoor ... Grand Father
Mohammad-Hossein Shahidi ... Alireza
Seyd-Ali Hosseini ... Ali's Friend
Haj-Ali Salimi ... Old Man
Ahmad Mokhber ... Mash Ramezan
Golnaz Tariqat ... Ms. Koubab
Mash-Ebrahim Safari ... Ali's Father's Friend
Davud Shams ... Shoe Seller
Azade Qale Noi ... Video Cameraman
Faramarz Safarizadeh ... Video Cameraman
Hossein Ahamdloo ... Photographer
Siamak Haj-Amini ... Photographer
Soheil Haj-Amini ... Photographer
Rahman Kharazchi ... Referee
Jamshid Yusefi ... Referee
Javad Kazemi ... Referee
Mohammad Oskooi ... Award Presenter
Reza Dehghan ... Award Presenter
Ali Chaharian ... Award Presenter
Amir-Ali Kazemi ... First Runner
Navid Feyzabadi ... Second Runner / Third Runner
Pasha Shoja Zadeh ... Fourth Runner
Moshen Qadiri Nejad ... Runner
Amir Hossein Tavakkoli ... Runner
Hadi Maleki ... Runner
Mohammad Hossein Mortavazi ... Runner
Seyed Karym Alikhani ... Runner
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Christopher Maleki ... Salt Seller
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Directed by
Majid Majidi 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Majid Majidi  writer

Produced by
Amir Esfandiari .... producer
Mohammad Esfandiari .... producer
 
Original Music by
Keivan Jahanshahi 
 
Cinematography by
Parviz Malekzaade 
 
Film Editing by
Hassan Hassandoost 
 
Production Management
Seyyed Saeed Seyedzadeh .... production manager
 
Sound Department
Mohammad Reza Delpak .... sound designer
Yadollah Najafi .... sound recordist
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Children of Heaven (USA)
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Runtime:
89 min
Country:
Iran
Language:
Persian
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Iceland:L | Malaysia:U | USA:TV-G (TV rating) | UK:12 (TV rating) | Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG | Chile:TE | France:U | Hong Kong:I | Singapore:PG | South Korea:All | USA:PG | Peru:PT
Filming Locations:
Tehran, Iran
Company:
The Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children & Young Adults more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
In the English DVD version of the film, the epilogue is not translated. The epilogue explains that Ali eventually achieves the larger-scale success of having a racing career. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Eisai to tairi mou: (#1.2)" (2001) more

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29 out of 36 people found the following comment useful.
Beautiful!, 26 April 2003
10/10
Author: Drewboy-2

I just saw this film in South Korea at a church. The film is spoken in Farsi, the subtitles were in Korean. It didn't matter that I couldn't understand a single word, because the cinematography and the faces of the children, their parents and the other cast members did all the talking. A wonderful film that dispelled my notions of Tehran as a dark and forbidding place - actually it's quite beautiful! We Americans have not seen Iran since 1979 and it is my hope that soon we can restore relations again. I wouldn't mind visiting.

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Why did ali's father weep in the mosque? sadir_ktms
How come Ali starts school about the same time of day Zhara finishes harland-ncl
More movies like this............... . jayakriss
why didn't Ali wait right outside the school..?? lalit-iit
Another child?? But they couldn't take care of the two they had! mlc2005
Great way to see everyday Iranian life! mlc2005
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