The Children of Heaven (1997)

Director

• Majid Majidi

Starring

• Mohammad Amir Naji
• Mir Farrokh Hashemian
• Bahareh Seddiqi
• Nasifeh Jafar Mohammadi
• Fereshte Sarabandi

Last On

01:20-02:50 Sun 29th Nov 2009 90m
ITV1

Synopsis

This delightful comedy from Majid Majidi, a key member of the younger generation of Iranian film-makers, proved something of a favourite on the festival circuit. Like The White Balloon and The Apple, it confirms the Iranian industry's genius for movies about children, with Mohammad Amir Naji and Mir Farrokh Hashemian wondrously natural as the impoverished siblings who try to disguise the loss of the latter's shoes by sharing a pair for school. With its deft comic shifts and bustling portrait of bazaar life, this enchants as much as it entertains.