The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)

Bad ma ra khahad bord (original title)

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Not Rated
1h 58min
Drama
23 Sep 1999 (Italy)
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Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.

Director:

Abbas Kiarostami

Writers:

Mahmoud Aiden, Abbas Kiarostami

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4 wins & 7 nominations.
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Cast

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	Behzad Dorani	...	Engineer
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Noghre Asadi
	Roushan Karam Elmi
	Bahman Ghobadi
	Shahpour Ghobadi
	Reihan Heidari
	Masood Mansouri
	Ali Reza Naderi
	Frangis Rahsepar
	Masoameh Salimi
	Farzad Sohrabi
	Lida Soltani

Directed by

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Abbas Kiarostami

Written by

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Mahmoud Aiden	...	(idea)

Abbas Kiarostami	...	(writer)

Produced by

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Marin Karmitz	...	producer
Abbas Kiarostami	...	producer

Music by

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Peyman Yazdanian

Cinematography by

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Mahmoud Kalari

Editing by

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Abbas Kiarostami

Production Management

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Nathalie Kreuther

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executive in charge of production

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Nasrin Askari	...	assistant director
Bahman Ghobadi	...	assistant director

Sound Department

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Nick Biscardi	...	commentary recordist
Mohammad Reza Delpak	...	sound designer / sound mixer
Houra Maleki	...	sound editor
Jahangir Mirshekari	...	sound
Mohamad Hassan Najm	...	sound
Afshin Nazem	...	sound
Ali Nouri	...	sound mixer

Production Companies

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MK2 Productions

Distributors

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Filmarti (2011) (Turkey)
ICA Projects (2000) (United Kingdom) (theatrical) (subtitled)
Rosebud (1999) (Greece) (theatrical)
Slovenska Kinoteka (Slovenia) (theatrical)
Cohen Media Group (2014) (United States)
MK2 Diffusion (France)
Madman Entertainment (2006) (Australia)
Madman Entertainment (2006) (New Zealand)
Mongrel Media (Canada)
New Yorker Films (2000) (United States) (subtitled)
Primer Plano Film Group (Argentina)

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Plot Summary	Plot Synopsis
Plot Keywords	engineer reference-to-tehran-iran matriarch dung-beetle terminal-illness See All (39) »
Genres	Drama
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Certification	Argentina:Atp Australia:PG (DVD rating) Australia:G (TV rating) Canada:G (Quebec) France:Tous publics Germany:0 Hong Kong:I Italy:T Japan:G Singapore:PG South Korea:All Sweden:Btl Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) United Kingdom:U United States:Not Rated

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Also Known As	Le vent nous emportera (France) The Wind Will Carry Us (Canada, English title) The Wind Will Carry Us (United States) The Wind Will Carry Us (World-wide, English title) The Wind Will Carry Us (United Kingdom) See more »
Runtime	118 min
Official Sites	sourehcinema
Country	Iran France
Language	Persian Kurdish
Color	Color
Aspect Ratio	1.85 : 1 See more »
Sound Mix	Mono
Filming Locations	Siah Dareh, Kurdistan, Iran See more »

Did You Know?

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Trivia	The title is a reference to a poem written by famous modern Iranian female poet Forough Farrokhzad. See more »
Goofs	When the engineer is driving back from the mountain, he stops and picks up someone who is walking down the road and starts talking to him, but when the camera shows the car from long shot for the first time, there is no one in the car other than the engineer. See more »
Movie Connections	Featured in Double Jeopardy/Jakob the Liar/Mumford (1999). See more »
Quotes	Engineer: But it wasn't Farhad who dug Behistun. Hole Digger: I know. Engineer: Who Then? Hole Digger: It was love. The love of Shirin. Engineer: Bravo! You must know love. Hole Digger: A man without love cannot live. See more »

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