The Silence

1998 PG-13 1h 16m

6.4 / 10 40

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Khorshid, a blind child growing up in Tajikistan, is constantly distracted by music and sounds. This frequently causes him to be late to his job as an instrument tuner even though he runs the risk of being fired at a time when his family is in danger of being evicted from their house.

Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Writers

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Stars

Tahmineh Normatova Nadereh Abdelahyeva Goibibi Ziadolahyeva

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CRCulver 23 Aug 2018

5/10

The director Mohsen Makhmalbaf made a number of acclaimed films in his native Iran over the Eighties and Nineties, but with the 1998 effort SOKOUT ("Silence") he moved farther afield for his shooting location: Tajikistan, where the locals speak a Persian dialect mostly intelligible to Iranians, but the culture is an exotic mix of Central Asian and Soviet traditions. Khorshid (Tahmineh Normatova...