Frontier Blues
Synopsis
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 project
- Features
- Running time
- 95 mins
- Format
- 35mm
- Director
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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
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Caspian Films
24A Roland GardensLondon SW7 3PL
UK
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