Description |
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
digital |
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optical |
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stereo |
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surround |
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Dolby |
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NTSC |
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video file |
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DVD video |
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region 1 |
System Details |
DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby digital stereo surround; widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.85:1, for 16:9 televisions. |
Cast |
Avaz Latif (Agrin), Soran Ebrahim (Satellite), Saddam Hossein Feysal (Pasheo), Hiresh Feysal Rahman (Hangao), Abdol Rahman Karim (Rega), Ajil Zibari (Shirko). |
Credits |
Director of photography, Shahriar Assadi ; editors, Mostafa Khergheh Poosh, Hayedeh Safi Yari ; music, Hossein Ali Zadeh. |
Note |
Title from subtitles, credits from MIJ Film website (http://mijfilms.com/feature-films/turtles-can-fly/). |
Event |
Originally produced as an Iranian/Iraqi feature film in 2004. |
Audience |
MPAA rating: Rated PG-13 for violence, disturbing images and mature thematic material, all involving children. |
Summary |
In Kurdistan, Iraq, near the Turkish border, a few weeks before the U.S.-Iraq war, near an enormous refugee camp an enterprising kid nicknamed Satellite makes a living installing TV antennas, hooking up the occasional satellite connection, and hiring out a worshipful gang of boys to perform odd jobs. Mostly they remove land mines and they do a good job of the dangerous work. Some have suffered for it, but they manage. A boy known to everyone as The Boy With No Arms, gently disarms mines by removing the firing pin with his lips. The prospect of war fills everyone with dread. The children suffer first, and suffer hardest. Death might come from the sky or from the ground, or it might not come at all, but the prospect of it always lingers. |
Contents |
Start -- Deprived from the sky -- Satellite's information -- Kid's work -- Mines for bargaining -- At her service -- Night's pain -- Important prediction -- Anticipating invasion -- Conceived abandonment -- Everything ends tomorrow -- Saddam has fallen. |
Note |
Special features: Previews (8 min.). |
Language |
In Kurdish, with optional subtitles in English; closed-captioned. |
Subject |
Teenage boys -- Drama.
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Teenage boys. |
Genre/Form |
Drama.
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Subject |
Refugee children -- Drama.
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Refugee children. |
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Teenage boys -- Conduct of life -- Drama.
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Teenage boys -- Conduct of life. |
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Entrepreneurship -- Drama.
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Entrepreneurship. |
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Refugee camps -- Drama.
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Refugee camps. |
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Drama.
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Iraq War (2003-2011) |
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Kurds -- Iran -- Drama.
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Kurds. |
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Iran. |
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Kurds -- Iraq -- Drama.
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Iraq. |
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Kurdistan -- Drama.
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Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Fiction films.
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Motion pictures, Kurdish.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Video recordings.
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Video recordings.
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Drama.
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Added Author |
Ghobadi, Bahman, screenwriter, director, producer.
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Ghavami, Hamid, producer.
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Ghobadi, Batin, producer.
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Karīmī, Ḥamīd, producer.
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Amini, Babak, producer.
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Latif, Avaz, actor.
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Ebrahim, Soran, actor.
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Feysal, Saddam Hossein, actor.
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Rahman, Hiresh Feysal, actor.
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Karim, Abdol Rahman, actor.
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Zibari, Ajil, actor.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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IFC Films.
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B.A.C. Films.
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Mizh Fīlm (Firm)
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MGM Home Entertainment Inc.
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
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Note |
Transliterated title from IMDb: Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand |
ISBN |
0792867416 |
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9780792867418 |
Standard No. |
027616928559 |
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027616124142 |
Music No. |
1008866 MGM Home Entertainment |
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