Frontier Blues
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Cast & Crew
Babak Jalali
George Hashemzadeh
Mahmoud Kalteh
Khajeh-araz Dordi
Karima Adebibe
Hossein Shams
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Synopsis
Gorgan, a village on the Iranian border with Turkmenistan. In this arid desert, four men live in solitude. Alam, twenty-eight, is Turkish and lives with his father. He works at a poultry farm, but spends all his free time 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. Hassan, also twenty-eight, lives with his uncle who sells clothes that never fit anyone. Hassan's 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 bemoaning 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.
Director
Babak Jalali
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Miscellaneous Notes
Shown at New Directors/New Films Series at the Film Society of Lincoln Center (Official Slate) March 24-April 4, 2010.
Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2010 San Francisco International Film Festival.
Released in United States 2009
Released in United States 2010
Released in United States August 2009
Shown at Locarno International Film Festival (International Competition) August 5-15, 2009.
Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival (New Directors Competition) April 22-May 6, 2010.
Released in United States 2009
Released in United States 2010 (Shown at New Directors/New Films Series at the Film Society of Lincoln Center (Official Slate) March 24-April 4, 2010.)
Released in United States 2010 (Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival (New Directors Competition) April 22-May 6, 2010.)
Released in United States August 2009 (Shown at Locarno International Film Festival (International Competition) August 5-15, 2009.)
