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Bahman Ghobadi - what members say


  • Turtles Can Fly
  • Turtles Can Fly review by brixtonite from London
    Rated - 5 stars Almost unbearably sad, BUT... 8 January 2008
    ... out to clear minefields for pennies, to have much in the way of laughs. But Bahman Ghobadi (a hero director if ever there was one) manages to leaven the almost unbearable...  
  • Half Moon
  • Half Moon review by from Aylesbury/Bucks/England
    Rated - 4 stars Beautiful film 29 January 2008
    ...pooli (Butterfly) who was born with the name Niwe mung (Half Moon). Director Bahman Ghobadi was an enthusiastic show-up for the 3rd screening and gave many interesting tid...  

Bahman Ghobadi - filmography


  • A Time For Drunken Horses (2000)
    Starring: Ayoub Ahmadi,  Rojin Younessi,  Amaneh Ekhtiar-Dini
    Director: Bahman Ghobadi
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Bahman Ghobadi's tragic, yet unsentimental first feature is influenced by his own childhood in Iran's Kurdistan. In a remote Kurdish village on the Iran-Iraq border, five motherless children endure hardscrabble lives, as heavily burdened by responsibility and loss as a smuggler's mule. Ayoub (Ayoub ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 661 members
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Bahman Ghobadi facts

5 most recent films

No One Knows About Persian Cats - 3.0 stars
Half Moon - 3.0 stars
Turtles Can Fly - 3.5 stars
A Time For Drunken Horses - 3.5 stars
Blackboards - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Turtles Can Fly - 3.5 stars
A Time For Drunken Horses - 3.5 stars
Blackboards - 3.0 stars
The Wind Will Carry Us - 3.0 stars
Half Moon - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

No One Knows About Persian Cats - 3.0 stars
Half Moon - 3.0 stars
The Wind Will Carry Us - 3.0 stars
Blackboards - 3.0 stars
A Time For Drunken Horses - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Noghre Asadi - 3 times - show films
Farzin Sabooni - 1 times - show films
Nezhad Ekhtiar-Dini - 1 times - show films
Ali Ashraf Rezai - 1 times - show films
Kambiz Arshi - 1 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Abbas Kiarostami - 3 times - show films
Samira Makhmalbaf - 1 times - show films