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A Time For Drunken Horses [DVD] [2001]

DVD ~ Ayoub Ahmadi

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Actors: Ayoub Ahmadi, Rojin Younessi, Amaneh Ekhtiar-dini, Madi Ekhtiar-dini, Kolsolum Ekhtiar-dini
Directors: Bahman Ghobadi
Writers: Bahman Ghobadi
Producers: Bahman Ghobadi
Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
Language Kurdish, Persian
Subtitles: English
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: PG
Studio: Palisades Tartan
DVD Release Date: 27 Jan 2003
Run Time: 75 minutes

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

ASIN: B00007JGIE
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 85,377 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Bahman Gobadi's intense quasi-documentary A Time for Drunken Horses deals with the lives of a young family of Kurds on the Iran/Iraq border. Their father has died in a landmine incident while smuggling and young Ayoub leaves school in an attempt to feed his siblings and find money for surgery on his crippled brother Madi. Things go from bad to worse: a marriage contract is reneged upon and we last see Ayoub and Madi trudging with a mule drugged against the cold with liquor through the snows of the high border hills as wolves howl in the distance. A few scenes remind us that this poverty is not an accident, but part of a system of actual and cultural oppression: soldiers frisk a group of children and confiscate exercise books; Ayoub spends money on a picture of a Western body-builder for Madi; they and their sisters spend evenings listening to a crackling transistor radio. There is a bracing purity to some of these images of stark suffering which shames much mo! re obviously artistic or popular film-making.

On the DVD: A Time for Drunken Horses has trailers but no more elaborate special features. The DVD is presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen and has simple but effective Dolby Stereo sound. --Roz Kaveney

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5.0 out of 5 stars its a cold place...., 21 Jan 2003

By	nefertiti (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

Its a cold place...so cold that even the horses have to be drunk before they can work.The film focuses on the 12 year old Ayoub who takes on the responsibility of his entire family after the death of their father...not an easy task in any part of the world, even less so in rural kurdistan.
He isnt better and he doesnt complain, he simply gets on with it. If you want to see what courage is, then you have to see it through HIS actions.

The only thing which breaks the intense cold throughout the film is the warmth that radiates from the unconditional love between the family. They do everything to ensure that Madi (their handicapped brother) gets his much needed operation. The oldest daughter even marries a man on the basis of his promise to fund Madi's operation.But when the in-laws decide Madi is a burden and the promise is unfulfilled, Ayoub carries Madi through "bandit-territory" in a bid to make it to Iraq the only place where his operation can take place....but does he make it?? well, watch the film and find out!

i recommend this film to everyone........ a welcome break from the expensive stunts and monotonus high speed chases on Hollywood streets. I dont think this film was made to be a tear jearker but it will definitely melt your heart. watch it!!!!

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Time for Drunken Horses, 9 Jul 2005

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A really excellent film sponsored by an independent French director of the real life world of the Kurds on the border with Iraq. A highly sensitive, and absorbing, portrayal of one part of the Third World.

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5.0 out of 5 stars naked humanity, 21 Mar 2009

By	A. Khatib "Life is good" (UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

a shocking realism rarely seen in film. a family attachment in direct contrast to the cold weather in the film. Do not miss it!

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