Widely considered among the greatest Iranian movies ever made, "Bashu" takes place during the Iran–Iraq war in the 1980s
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Courtesy Ritual Late Iranian director Bahram Beyzai’s revered classic “Bashu: The Little Stranger” (1985) is soon to be re-released in North American cinemas by indie distributor Film Movement in the U.S. and Montreal-based Ritual in Canada.
Widely considered among the greatest Iranian movies ever made, “Bashu” takes place during the Iran–Iraq war of the 1980s. The moving drama revolves on a young boy, the film’s titular character, who escapes the bombing of his southern Iranian village in which his family is killed. He travels north where a mother of two, whose husband is away, takes Bashu in, defying suspicions of the surrounding villagers.
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