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Frontier Blues (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Stockholm Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Farsi ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Farsi ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

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

Running Time:
95 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
Iran ( Africa, Middle East )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Babak Jalali

Written By:
Babak Jalali

Actors:
Babak Jalali

Synopsis:

Gorgan, a little village on the Iranian border with Turkmenistan. In this arid, almost deserted area four men live in solitude and expectation. Alam, twenty-eight, is Turkish and lives with his father. He works at a poultry farm, but spends all his free time with his Walkman, trying to learn English. This is because he wants to ask Ana to marry him and take her to Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, where he believes everyone speaks in English. Since his mother abandoned him to go and live in Paris, Hassan, also twenty-eight, has lived with his uncle, a man who sells clothes that never fit anyone. His only companion is a donkey that he feeds on newspapers, and his main activity is stealing car licence plates. At fifty-five, a minstrel becomes the subject of a book of photographs. Constantly trailed by a bunch of kids, he spends his time bewailing the fact that his wife was kidnapped by a shepherd in a green Mercedes. Life for these four individuals passes slowly, lulled by a daily routine in which hope has almost entirely disappeared, even though the odd glimmer might appear.

Comedy set in the Golestan province of Iran, on the border with Turkmenistan, and revolving around four characters. Alam works on a chicken farm but hopes to learn English, marry and move to the city. A photographer from Tehran follows as minstrel from Turkmenistan in the hope of getting exotic, ethnic pictures. And a man who runs a clothing shop lives with his nephew, whose only friend is a donkey.

The debut feature of Iranian-born and London-based writer/director Babak Jalali intertwines 4 stories all set in Iran's northern frontier with Turkmenistan. With insight and humour, Jalali observes fragments from the sometimes absurd everyday lives of several characters in this diverse and multi-ethnic region.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 07 December, 2010.

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