A Time for Drunken Horses

A Time for Drunken Horses

2000 · 80 min · FA · 7.6 (96 votes)
Dir. Bahman Ghobadi · Starring Ayoub Ahmadi, Rojin Younessi, Amaneh Ekhtiar-dini, Madi Ekhtiar-dini, Kolsolum Ekhtiar-dini, Karim Ekhtiar-dini · Music Hossein Alizadeh
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After their father dies, a family of five are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq. Matters are made worse when 12 year old Ayoub, the new head of the family, is told that his handicapped brother, Madi, needs an immediate operation in order to remain alive. This heartbreaking tale shows the lengths to which a family will go in order to survive in the harshest of conditions, where even the horses are fed liquor in order to work.

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A stark, unflinching look at childhood resilience against overwhelming odds. It's a raw, deeply human story that will leave you contemplating the strength of the human spirit in the face of extreme hardship and poverty.

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