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The Silence

The Silence

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1998

Release Year

76 min

Runtime

Drama
Music

Overview

Khorshid, a blind child growing up in Tajikistan, is constantly distracted by music and sounds. This frequently causes him to be late to his job as an instrument tuner even though he runs the risk of being fired at a time when his family is in danger of being evicted from their house.

Keywords

family drama
blind
child protagonist
instrument maker
blind child

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CRCulver

August 22, 2018

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5/10

The director Mohsen Makhmalbaf made a number of acclaimed films in his native Iran over the Eighties and Nineties, but with the 1998 effort SOKOUT ("Silence") he moved farther afield for his shooting location: Tajikistan, where the locals speak a Persian dialect mostly intelligible to Iranians, but

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