Turtles Can Fly Movie Review 2004

Director Ghobadi's stark and engrossing tale of the unending daily sufferings of refugee children living on the Iraq-Turkey border as they await the U.S.-led invasion in early 2003. Essentially absent of adults, Ghobadi centers on 13-year-old Satellite (Ebrahim)--who uses his technical savvy to bring TV to the camp so they can watch news channels--along with his rival Hengov, disfigured by landmines, and Hengov's withdrawn sister Agrin who rebuffs Satellite's romantic advances. In Kurdish, with English subtitles.

Distribution

MGM Home Entertainment, 2500 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90404-6061, Phone: (310)449-3000, Fax: (310)449-3100, URL: http://www.mgmhomevideo.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on DVD
Running time 95 minutes.
Originally from French, Iranian.

Cast and Crew

Genres

War, General, Middle East

Screenplay

Bahman Ghobadi

Cast

Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Hirsh Feyssal, Saddam Hossein Feysal, Hiresh Feysal Rahman, Abdol Rahman Karim, Ajil Zibari

Cinematography

Shahriar Assadi

Director

Bahman Ghobadi

Music

Hossein Alizadeh

Other

Bahman Ardalan, Mastafa Kherghehpaush, Hayedeh Sayifari, Bahman Ghobadi

Producer

Bahman Ghobadi, Mij Film Co., BAC Films Ltd.