Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 83 min
- Language
- Persian
- Country
- Iran
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Persian — subtitles on.
The story
An 8-year-old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.
- village life
- village
- notebook
- family relationships
- teacher
- school
- kindness
- iran
- child's point of view
- schoolboy
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Babek Ahmadpour
Ahmed Ahmadpour
Ahmed Ahmadpour
Mohamed Reza Nematzadeh
Kheda Barech Defai
Teacher
Iran Outari
Mother
- Ait Ansari — Father
- Sadika Taohidi — Persian Neighbour
- Biman Mouafi — Ali
- Ali Djamali — Grandfather's Friend
- Aziz Babai — Waiter
- Nader Ghoulami — Property Owner
- Akbar Mouradi — Old Man from Azerbaidjan
- Teba Slimani — Husband
- Mohammad Reza Parvaneh — Morteza
- Farahanka Brothers — Young Boy
- Maria Chdjari — Girl who stutters
- Directed
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Written
- Abbas Kiarostami
Production
- Studio
- Kanoon, Farabi Cinema
If this stayed with you
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