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The Colour of Paradise |
| Majid
Majidi |
| Mohammad,
a boy at Tehran’s institute for blind people, waits for
his dad to pick him up for summer holidays. While waiting, he
releases a baby bird fallen from its nest. His father finally
comes and takes him to their village where his sisters and granny
await him. The lad is a loving student of nature and longs for
village life with his family, but his father is ashamed of him.
Over granny’s objections, dad apprentices Mohammad far
from home to a blind carpenter. Can anything bring father and
son together?
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Screenplay/
Majid Majidi
Photography (colour)/ Hashem Attar, Mohammad Davudi
Editing/ Hassan Hassandoost
Music/ Alireza Kohandairy
Art Direction/ Masood Madadi
Cast / Hossein Mahjoub, Mohsen Ramezani, Salime Feizi,
Farahnaz Safari, Elham Sharifi
Production/ Varahonar Company
Year of Production/ 1999
Running Time/ 90’ |
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| Majid
Majidi was born in Tehran in 1959. He grew up in this city and
at the age of fourteen he started acting in amateur theatrical
groups. He then studied at the Institute of Dramatic Art in
Tehran. After the Islamic revolution in 1978, his interest in
cinema brought him to act in various films, notably Boycott
(1985) by Mohsen Makhmalbaf. His début as a director
and screen-writer is marked by Baduk (1992). Since then, he
wrote and directed several films. His Children of Heaven (1997)
won the Best Picture Award at the Montreal International Film
Festival and was nominated for best foreign film at the Oscar
Academy Awards.Another film by Majidi, The Color of Paradise,
was selected as one of the best ten films of year 2000 by Time
Magazine and by the New York Times. This film set a box office
record for an Iranian film in the usa. His last film, Baran,
won the Best Picture Award at the Montreal International Film
Festival in 2001. In 2002, he produced Barefoot to Herat, an
emotional documentary on Afghanistan refugee camps.
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