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Lākpushtʹhā ham parvāz mīkunand [videorecording] = Turtles also fly / written, produced, and directed by Bahman Ghobadi.

Contributor(s): Language: Persian, Kurdish Subtitle language: English Publication details: [Santa Monica, Calif.] : MGM Home Entertainment ; [Culver City, Calif.] : Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2005, [2004]Edition: Widescreen versionDescription: 1 videodisc (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inOther title:
  • Turtles can fly
  • Turtles also fly
  • Lakposhtha h?m parvaz mikonand
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN1997.2 .L3578 DVD
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Shahriyār Asadī ; editor, Mustafá Kharqahʹpūsh ; music, Ḥusayn ʻAlīzādah.
Cast: Sūrān Ibrāhīm, Hīrsh Fayṣal Raḥmān, Avāz Latīf, ʻAbd al-Rahmān Karīm, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn Fayṣal, Ājīl Zībārī.Summary: Set in a refugee camp on the Iran-Iraq border in 2003 just prior to the US invasion, the film shows the refugees' obsession with acquiring a satellite dish to keep abreast of America's plans. Thirteen-year-old Satellite, the accepted leader of the kids in the camp, finally acquires the equipment they need by trading in the land mines the children have cleared from the area. On meeting Henkov, a boy from a neighboring village and a landmine victim himself, Satellite discovers Henkov's prophetic powers, which turn out to be more reliable than twenty first century technology.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2004.

Director of photography, Shahriyār Asadī ; editor, Mustafá Kharqahʹpūsh ; music, Ḥusayn ʻAlīzādah.

MPAA rating: PG-13.

Cast: Sūrān Ibrāhīm, Hīrsh Fayṣal Raḥmān, Avāz Latīf, ʻAbd al-Rahmān Karīm, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn Fayṣal, Ājīl Zībārī.

Set in a refugee camp on the Iran-Iraq border in 2003 just prior to the US invasion, the film shows the refugees' obsession with acquiring a satellite dish to keep abreast of America's plans. Thirteen-year-old Satellite, the accepted leader of the kids in the camp, finally acquires the equipment they need by trading in the land mines the children have cleared from the area. On meeting Henkov, a boy from a neighboring village and a landmine victim himself, Satellite discovers Henkov's prophetic powers, which turn out to be more reliable than twenty first century technology.

DVD (NTSC, Region 1).

In Persian and Kurdish with English subtitles.

Soundtrack in Kurdish; subtitles in English.

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