The colors of paradise
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The colors of paradise |
| Original title | Rang-e khoda |
| Country of production | Iran |
| original language | Persian |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Majid Majidi |
| script | Majid Majidi |
| production |
Mehdi Karimi , Ali Ghaem Maghami , Mehdi Mahabadi , Mohsen Sarab |
| music | Alireza Kohandairy |
| camera | Mohammad Davudi |
| cut | Hassan Hassandoost |
| occupation | |
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The colors of paradise ( Persian رنگ خدا Rang-e khoda ) is an Iranian fictional film from 1999. The film, in which Majid Majidi worked as director and screenwriter, focuses on a blind boy and his father who is ashamed of his son's blindness. The main roles were played by Mohsen Ramezani and Hossein Mahjoub .
action
The visually impaired boy Mohammad visits a boarding school for the blind in Tehran and learns Braille there . His family lives far away, in the country, and farms there. Mohammad's mother died five years ago, his father lives with his grandmother and Mohammad's two sisters.
When the four-month vacation arrives and all the children are picked up by their parents, Mohammad's father is too late. The father comes and wants the boy's teachers to keep him entirely in Tehran, because he wants to get married again soon and he believes the boy would be a burden for the new marriage. The teachers turn him away and the father takes Mohammad home with him.
There the boy meets his two sisters and grandmother, who always takes good care of Mohammad. Mohammad goes to the village school for a day with his sisters and impresses with his skills in reading Braille. In the field, the boy interprets the sounds of the birds and the nature of the plants in writing and is therefore particularly enthusiastic about nature.
Because of the approaching marriage, the father gives his son the apprenticeship of a blind carpenter, against the will of the grandmother. The grandmother runs away from home because of this and gets sick in the process. The father brings her back. The grandmother dies. The engagement is broken off because the bride's family believes the father is cursed because of the many deaths in his family and the blindness of the son.
The father picks up Mohammad from the carpenter and wants to take him home. When the two cross a bridge, it collapses and Mohammad falls into the river below. After hesitating, the father jumps after him, cannot find his son in the water, gets caught in the current and passes out. The father washes up on the beach. He wakes up and finds his son's still body. He takes Mohammad in his arms and weeps for him. When the father hears the sound of a bird, Mohammad's hand begins to move.
Emergence
As inspiration, Majid Majidi observed four blind boys and their reactions to their environment, especially nature. The director cast amateur actors; except for Hossein Mahjoub, the actor who played the father.
The film was originally supposed to be released under the title The Color of God . So that the film would not be perceived as primarily religious, the title was changed.
reception
The Colors of Paradise was screened on February 8, 1999 at the Iranian Fajr Film Festival . This film festival has a major national competition in which the film participated. He was victorious in the categories of Best Actor (Mohsen Ramezani), Best Supporting Actor (Hossein Mahjoub) and Best Sound and also received the audience award and a special mention to the director from the jury.
On September 1 of the same year, the film was shown at the World Film Festival in Montréal. In its competition, which is one of the most important international competitions at film festivals, it emerged as the winner and thus won the Grand Prix of the Americas , the main prize. In the following time the film was shown at many other international film festivals and received several awards, such as the special prize of the jury at the Gijón International Film Festival .
From 2000 the film was released in cinemas in several countries around the world. It was particularly successful in Switzerland, where it was seen over 47,000 times. In the United States, The Colors of Paradise was only seen in select cities. He had an attendance of over 330,000 and played 1.8 million US dollars a.
At the Academy Awards 2000 , Iran's film was submitted for a nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category , but it was neither nominated nor awarded. The film was nominated for the Young Artist Award in the categories of Best International Film and Best Young Actor in an International Film (Mohsen Ramezani) .
Most of the international critics spoke positively of the film. Roger Ebert said in the Chicago Sun-Times that the film was characterized by delicacy and beauty. "A family film that shamed the superficial commercialism of a product like" Pokemon "and its value system of power and greed." In 2001, the film dienst wrote: "A fairytale-like fable that is sensitive and in images of increasingly archaic force and symbolic power for the Senses and the sensory perception of people sensitized and connects this with elementary basic questions of human existence. "
Web links
- The Color of Paradise in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Color of Paradise atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Information and images on official Majid Majidis website (English)
- Collection of reviews on filmz.de