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Tahmineh Normatova
Khorshid
Nadereh Abdelahyeva
Nadareh
Goibibi Ziadolahyeva
Khorshid's Mother
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A review by CRCulver
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Written by CRCulver on Wed Aug 22 2018
The director Mohsen Makhmalbaf made a number of acclaimed films in his native Iran over the Eighties and Nineties, but with the 1998 effort SOKOUT ("Silence") he moved farther afield for his shooting location: Tajikistan, where the locals speak a Persian dialect mostly intelligible to Iranians, but the culture is an exotic mix of Central Asian and Soviet traditions.
Khorshid (Tahmineh Normatova), a blind boy aged around 10, is employed in the workshop of an instrument maker, tuning the instruments. His mother (Goibibi Ziadolahyeva), abandoned by her husband, urges him to work hard, for their...
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English
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Keywords
- family drama
- blind
- child protagonist
- instrument maker
- blind child
