Project Detail

Frontier Blues

Synopsis

Frontier Blues takes place on Iran's northern frontier with Turkmenistan. It consists of 4 stories.
Alam is a 28 year-old Turkmen man who lives with his father and works in a chicken farm; Hassan is a 28 year-old Persian man who has a pet donkey and lives with his uncle; Kazem, is Hassan's uncle and he owns a clothing store but the clothes he tries to sell never seem to fit anyone; A 55 year-old Turkmen minstrel is the subject of a book of photography by a photographer from Tehran. His wife was stolen by a Sheppard in a green Mercedes many years ago.
Frontier Blues is the story of longing, waiting, remembering, desperate men and absent women.

Details

Year: 2010
Type of film: Features
Running time: 95 mins
Format: 35mm
Director: Babak Jalali 1st Feature
Producer: Ginevra Elkann, Homayoun Assadian
Editor: Babak Jalali, Kambiz Saffari
Screenwriter: Babak Jalali
Director of Photography: Shahriar Assadi
Production Designer: Marjan Golzar
Sound: Maziar Razaghi
Composer: Noaz Deshe
Principal cast: Khajeh Araz Dordi, Mahmoud Kalteh, Abolfazl Karimi, Behzad Shahrivari, Karima Adebibe