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Bookmark this pageDaan (1997)
Director: Abolfazl Jalili
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From Time Out Film Guide
More linear and less obviously poetic than Jalili's likewise impressive Dance of Dust, this affecting docu-drama concerns a nine-year-old unable to hold down a job because his drug addict parents never properly registered his birth or got him an ID. Meanwhile the family of a girl - the boy's friend - plans to take her out of school and marry her to a much older man. An intelligent, heartfelt indictment not only of how adult worlds wreck childhood, but of the Catch-22 situations fostered by excessive bureaucracy. A tough, deeply humane film.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Abolfazl Jalili
Producer: Abolfazl Jalili
Cast: Farhad Bahremand, Bakhtiyar Bahremand, Farzad Halili, Tayebeh Soori full cast
Duration: 90 mins
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