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The Little Man

2000 · 85 min

A quiet, patient look at rural childhood and hardship, told with gentle realism and a child's stubborn hope.

Overview
In a small village, Mamal's family struggles to make a living and his father leaves to find work. Mamal wants to contribute by cultivating a vegetable garden but this makes him neglect school and provokes the anger of his mother.
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • survival
  • coming-of-age
  • work
  • parenthood
Places
  • small town
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour2
Realism8
Romance0
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity3
Emotional weight6

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Details

Directed by
Ebrahim Forouzesh
Starring
Zahra Hosseini, Maryam Kazemi, Maryam Loft, Alijan Lofti
Runtime
85 min
Country
Iran, France
Languages
Persian

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