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The Wind Will Carry Us

1999 · 118 min

A patient, quietly funny and deeply human portrait of a stranger slowing down in a remote village, asking for your full attention.

Directed by: Abbas Kiarostami
Genres: Drama
Starring: Behzad Dorani, Farzad Sohrabi, Noghre Asadi

Overview: Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.

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Directed by: Abbas Kiarostami
Genres: Drama
Starring: Behzad Dorani, Farzad Sohrabi, Noghre Asadi

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
identity
death
friendship
healing
Places: countryside
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	4
Realism	9
Romance	1
Tension	2
Darkness	3
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Abbas Kiarostami
Written by: Abbas Kiarostami
Starring: Behzad Dorani, Farzad Sohrabi, Noghre Asadi, Roushan Karam Elmi, Bahman Ghobadi, Shahpour Ghobadi, Reihan Heidari, Masood Mansouri
Music: Peyman Yazdanian
Cinematography: Mahmoud Kalari
Runtime: 118 min
Country: Iran, France
Languages: Kurdish, Persian

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