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Pedar (The Father)

Pedar (The Father) (1996)

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Release Date: Sep 6, 1996 Wide

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Release Date: Sep 6, 1996 Wide

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A proud 14-year-old boy struggles to come to grips with his mother's new husband in this moving Iranian drama. Following the death of his father, Mehrollah leaves his remote inland village heads for a coastal city to make enough money to support his mother and sisters. He is gone for a long time and when he returns home, joyously bearing gifts and money for the family, he is shocked to discover that his mother has married a policeman. It makes it worse that they have moved to a bigger home.

Unrated, 1 hr. 32 min.

Art House & International, Drama

Jan 27, 2009

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Another film by Majid Majidi. He proofed himself to make films simple but with artistic touches. An adolescent son workng for his family comes back and finds that his mother remarried a policeman. With all fury he hates his step father without finding out what sort of man he was. He runs away and the stepfather

May 21, 2009
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