Stray Dogs ( Sag-haye velgard ) ( Chiens égarés )

Stray Dogs (DVD) (*)

$37.99

Original Title: Sag-haye velgard
Alternate Title: Chiens égarés
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Farsi ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2004 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Iran ( Africa, Middle East )

Directed By:
Marzieh Makhmalbaf

Written By:
Marzieh Makhmalbaf

Actors:
Gol-Ghotai ..... Gol-Ghotai
Zahed ..... Zahed
Agheleh Rezaie ..... The mother
Sohrab Akbari ..... Atef, the guard
Jamil Ghanazideh ..... Angry guardian
Agheleh Shamsollah ..... Female cell guardian
Razeddin Sayyar ..... Old crazy man
Maydeh Gol ..... Grand-mother
Ghomri Valad Amir ..... Woman in a burqa
Shah Mahmood Golbahari ..... Rose seller
Emameddin Vakil ..... Cinema teller
Akhtar Abdolaziz ..... Cart driver
Twiggy ..... Dog

Synopsis:

A thoughtful and emotionally challenging look at the lives of two children living in modern day Afghanistan, STRAY DOGS lifts the lid on what it is like living in the country, post-Taliban. The film focuses on a young brother and sister who are forced to share their incarcerated mother's prison cell by night, but roam the streets during the day. For they are homeless; only allowed to stay within the prison's confines after dark, the children are not permitted there during the day. Fed up with having to fend for themselves, and in a desperate bid to get locked up on a more permanent basis, the siblings concoct a cunning plan; using American cinema as a guide, they begin to perform robberies on the streets of Kabul.

In Marziyeh Meshkini's beautifully crafted and moving insight into post-Taliban Afghanistan, two children, a brother and sister, rescue a stray dog on the streets of Kabul. That evening they visit the jail where their mother is a prisoner and, since her children have nowhere to live, they are permitted to stay with her at night. But the following morning, they are thrown out: prison is for criminals, not homeless orphans. Desperate to return to the jail, brother and sister attempt a series of robberies, but each seems doomed to failure until a fugitive seems to offer an unusual solution:the movies. They can learn to steal from watching Hollywood films; alternatively, European cinema can teach them how to get caught.

Story of two children living in Kabul. With their mother in prison, the brother and sister have nowhere to live. They are permitted to stay in prison with her at night, but during the day must go out on the streets. Desperately they try to commit a suitable crime that will land them in jail too.

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