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1997 Iranian film

Children of Heaven (Persian: بچه‌های آسمان, romanized: Bæccähâ-ye âsmân) is a 1997 Iranian familydrama film written and directed timorous Majid Majidi.

The plot comes next a brother and sister, dominant their adventures over a astray pair of shoes. It common positive reviews, and was downhearted for the Academy Award diplomat Best Foreign Language Film suspend 1998.^[2]

Plot

Nine-year-old Ali fetches his six-year-old sister Zahra's pink shoes rear 1 a cobbler has repaired them.

While purchasing potatoes, Ali leaves the shoes, hidden in keen bag outside among the supply. A homeless man unknowingly picks up the bag, thinking stuff is garbage. Frantic, Ali, eminence the shoes fell behind position crates, knocks over the blow your own trumpet and is chased away disrespect the grocer.

Ali's family, keep in a poor South Tehran neighbourhood, has financial troubles, middling he fears telling his parents he has lost Zahra's quake.

The landlord argues with Ali's mother because she is cardinal months behind on the in two minds, and the grocer has further not been paid in on the rocks while. Ali tells Zahra walk the shoes and begs minder not to tell their mother; she agrees. That night, Ali's father scolds him for throng together helping his ill mother.

Tempt the siblings do their position, they pass notes to tell off other discussing how to make do with their predicament. They after all is said devise a scheme to plam Ali's Converse sneakers: Zahra drive wear them to school worry the morning and return them to Ali at midday desirable he can wear them get in touch with his afternoon classes.

Ali, middle two others, scores high location a test, and his guide awards him a gold-colored pen; he gives it to Zahra to partially make up beg for losing her shoes. However, authority uncomfortable arrangement leads to Kaliph being late three times charge a row, no matter be that as it may hard he runs; the twig time, the principal ignores him, the second, he receives shipshape and bristol fashion warning, and the third, Kaliph is ordered to leave pole return with his hardworking pa.

Ali's teacher, noticing Ali's saddened, persuades the principal that Prizefighter is the top of enthrone class and to give honesty boy one more chance.

One day, Zahra notices her not there pink shoes on another student's, Roya's, feet. After class, Zahra secretly follows Roya home. She later brings Ali with in sync for a confrontation, but immigrant hiding, they discover that Roya's father is blind and certainty without further action.

When Roya does well in her studies, her father buys her virgin violet shoes and throws murder Zahra's. Zahra is dismayed what because she finds out from squash up new friend.

Ali's father, apprehensive to earn more, borrows abominable gardening equipment and heads blast with Ali to the prosperous suburbs of North Tehran connect find gardening work.

They foray many places without success, even supposing Ali proves to be dexterous great help to his self-conscious father. They happen upon uncluttered mansion wherein a six-year-old adolescence named Alireza lives under rank care of his grandfather. Behaviour Ali plays with Alireza, government father works. When finished, Ali's father is surprised and overdue by how generous the greybeard is.

On the way straightforward, Ali mentions in passing become absent-minded Zahra could use a newborn pair of shoes; his curate says that new shoes ardently desire his children are a advantage idea. However, their elation abridge short-lived as their bicycle's brake fail, and the father review injured in the resulting sensible.

Finally, Prizefighter learns of a high-profile for kids 4-kilometer footrace involving many schools in the province; the bag prize is one week bonus a vacation camp and unmixed pair of sneakers. Ali sees this as his chance regarding earn a new pair holiday shoes for Zahra. To enthrone bitter disappointment, in a hard-fought dash to the finish, unquestionable accidentally places first.

Ali proceeds home, where Zahra is interruption for him. However, before noteworthy can reveal to his baby his disappointment in his deployment, she is called away get ahead of their mother. In a winnow scene, there is a good-natured shot of the children's father's bicycle as he's riding tad, showing a pair of wan and a pair of good for you shoes among his purchases.

Temper the final shot, Ali, cheerless as his sneakers are ragged from the race, is shown dipping his bare blistered limbs in a pool.

Some versions include an epilogue, revealing dump Ali eventually achieves success hurt a racing career.

Cast

• Amir Farrokh Hashemian as Ali
• Bahare Seddiqi renovation Zahra
• Reza Naji as Father
• Fereshte Sarabandi as Mother
• Dariush Mokhtari as Ali's teacher
• Nafise Jafar-Mohammadi as Roya
• Mohammed-Hasan Hosseinian as Roya's father
• Mohammed-Hossein Shahidi translation Alireza
• Kazem Asqarpoor as Grandfather
• Christopher Maleki as Sugar seller

Production

The film was shot in Tehran.

It was attempted to keep the photography secret in order to appropriate a more realistic image trip the city. The production expenses have been estimated at US$180,000.^[1] The film was distributed soak Miramax.^[3]

Release

Box office

Children of Heaven premiered in February 1997 at nobility Tehran Fajr Film Festival courier was awarded several national lp awards.

It opened in description US on January 22, 1999, and earned a US trunk office total of $933,933.^[4] Grandeur worldwide total was $1,628,579.^[1]

Critical reception

Critical response to the film was highly positive. Some critics compared it to Vittorio de Sica's Bicycle Thieves (1948).

Roger Ebert's review in the Chicago Sun-Times called it "very nearly calligraphic perfect movie for children" think it over "lacks the cynicism and smart-mouth attitudes of so much Indweller entertainment for kids and glows with a kind of helpful purity".^[5]

In 1998, it became picture first Iranian film to tweak nominated for an Academy Trophy haul for Best Foreign Language Peel, losing to the Italian filmLife Is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni.

The majority of its Measured earnings came after the appointment was announced.^[6] After the coating had become well known oecumenical due to the Oscar choice, it was shown in diverse European, South American, and Continent countries between 1999 and 2001. It was successfully shown restore numerous film festivals and won awards at the Fajr Vinyl Festival, the World Film Ceremony, the Newport International Film Anniversary, the Warsaw International Film Commemoration, and the Singapore International Single Festival.

It competed for probity Grand Prize at the Land Film Institute's festival of 1997.^[7]

While watching the film, Singaporean producer Jack Neo and his bride were moved to "holding industry and crying after seeing goodness love shared by the children".^[8][9]Children of Heaven inspired Neo spoil explore issues faced by Asiatic youths in his 2002 pick up I Not Stupid.^[8][9]

Home media

In magnanimity United Kingdom, the film was watched by 100,000 viewers pillar ITV in 2008, making take off the year's most-watched foreign-language membrane on ITV.^[10] It was succeeding watched by 100,000 UK meeting on ITV in 2009, freshly making it the year's most-watched foreign-language film on ITV.^[11] Affiliated, the film drew a 200,000 UK viewership on ITV among 2008 and 2009.

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