Abbas Kiarostami

Breaktime

Breaktime

Disciplined at school for breaking a window, a boy joins throngs of his schoolmates as they make a cacophonous exit into Tehran’s streets. He then briefly joins an impromptu soccer game but disrupts it by stealing the ball and running away, and ends up drifting aimlessly along a busy highway. Free of dialogue but using nonsynchronous concrete sound throughout, this moody film shows Abbas Kiarostami expanding his visual vocabulary with zooms and crane and helicopter shots.

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Film Info

  • Iran
  • 1972
  • 15 minutes
  • Black & White
  • 1.37:1
  • Persian

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Eclipse Series 47: Abbas Kiarostami—Early Shorts and Features

Eclipse Series 47: Abbas Kiarostami—Early Shorts and Features

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$55.96

Breaktime
Cast
Sirous Hassanpour
Dara
Credits
Director
Abbas Kiarostami
Writer
Abbas Kiarostami
Writer
Massoud Madani
Cinematography
Morteza Rastegar
Cinematography
Ali Reza Zarrindast
Producer
Abbas Kiarostami
Editor
Rouhollah Emami

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