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Marooned in Iraq

2002 · 1h 48m · N/A Drama, War
Directed by Bahman Ghobadi

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Overview

During the war between Iran and Iraq, a group of Iranian Kurd musicians set off on an almost impossible mission. They will try to find Hanareh, a singer with a magic voice who crossed the border and may now be in danger in the Iraqi Kurdistan. As in his previous films, this Kurdish director is again focusing on the oppression of his people.

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93%
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It's a movie that works on many levels, including symbolic and metaphorical.

Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco Chronicle
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It puts a face and name to people and events we hear about nightly on CNN.

Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News
Fresh

Not surprising that it's more tragicomedy than yukfest.

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Fresh

Even though the film's tone grows ever more elegiac, it stubbornly remains a celebration of the Kurdish capacity to endure.

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Fresh

Moving from the harsh reportage of his first feature, A Time for Drunken Horses, Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi looks at life through the all-seeing but forgiving lens of comedy.

Henry Sheehan, L.A. Weekly

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