Where is my friend's house
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| German title | Where is my friend's house |
| Original title | Khae-ye doust kodjast? |
| Country of production | Iran |
| original language | Persian |
| Publishing year | 1987 |
| length | 81 minutes |
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| Director | Abbas Kiarostami |
| script | Abbas Kiarostami |
| production | Ali Reza Zarrin |
| music | Amine Allah Hessine |
| camera | Farhad Saba |
| cut | Abbas Kiarostami |
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Where is my friend's house (Original title: Khae-ye doust kodjast? ) Is an Iranian fictional film by the director Abbas Kiarostami from 1987. The film is about the 8-year-old boy Ahmed who accidentally puts the notebook of his friend Mohamed into his pocket and threatens to be excluded from school. With this, the director achieved his international breakthrough, the film is considered an important example of Iranian neorealism . It is the first part of Kiarostami's Koker trilogy , followed by And Life Goes On (1992) and Across the Olive Grove (1994) .
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Ahmed and Mohamed Reda Nematzadeh go to the second grade together in an Iranian village. Because Mohamed is doing his homework for the third time on loose pieces of paper and not in his notebook, the teacher threatens to expel him from school if that happens again. When Ahmed comes home at noon, he notices that he has pocketed Mohamed's notebook. He begins a search across the village for Mohamed's house. Again and again he is held up or the directions he is given are inadequate or incorrect. Finally, with the help of an elderly man - it is already night - he finds the house, but everyone is probably already sleeping there. Ahmed runs back home feeling sad and depressed. While his parents are already going to sleep, he is still doing his homework. In the next scene the viewer learns that Ahmed has also done homework for Mohamed and quickly gives him the exercise book before the teacher checks the assignments.
Reviews
The film has a score of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes , which means that all of the press reviews were positive. Sean Axmaker of Parallax View wrote of the film, "On the one hand, Kiarostami depicts a society that is rooted in authoritarian demands and on the other hand he shows us how children can get lost in a society of business and responsibility". Matthew Lucas of From the Front Row writes that it was the final scene that, in its beauty and sublime belief in the human goodness inherent in childhood, can accommodate Truffaut's last take on you and they beat him .
Awards
The film won three prizes at the 1989 Locarno International Film Festival : Bronze Leopard , FIPRESCI Prize , Prize of the Ecumenical Jury . It was also shown at the festival in 1994, 1995 and 2016.
Web links
- Where is my friend's house in the IMDb
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sean Axmaker: Abbas Kiarostami's 'Koker Trilogy'. February 13, 2012, accessed August 2, 2020 (American English).
- ^ Matthew Lucas: Blu-Ray Review | The Koker Trilogy. In: From the Front Row. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .