1972 | Iran | Fiction

Zang-e Tafrih (Breaktime)

  • Persian 15 mins
  • Director | Abbas Kiarostami
  • Writer | Abbas Kiarostami, Massoud Madani
  • Producer | Abbas Kiarostami

STATUS: Released

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Disciplined at school for breaking a window, a boy joins throngs of his schoolmates as they make a cacophonous exit into Tehran’s streets. He then briefly joins an impromptu soccer game but disrupts it by stealing the ball and running away, and ends up drifting aimlessly along a busy highway. Free of dialogue but using nonsynchronous concrete sound throughout, this moody film shows Abbas Kiarostami expanding his visual vocabulary with zooms and crane and helicopter shots.

Rebellion Drift Silent Urban Experimental
Film Organizations
The Criterion Collection
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