The Blackboard

1h 28 min

2000

Italy

6.8

Kurdish teachers Said and Reeboir roam Iranian villages near Iraqi border during war. Said guides displaced men, marries widow Halaleh. Reeboir joins child smugglers. Amid danger, they try teaching nomadic students while soldiers patrol.

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Cast

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