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Children of Heaven is a iranien film of genre Drama directed by Majid Majidi released in USA on 22 january 1999 with Reza Naji

Children of Heaven (1997)

بچه های آسمان

Children of Heaven
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Released in USA 22 january 1999
Length 1h29
Directed by
OriginIran
Genres Drama,    Comedy
Rating81% 4.0987754.0987754.0987754.0987754.098775

Children of Heaven (Persian: بچه‌های آسمان‎‎, Bacheha-ye Aseman) is a 1997 Iranian family drama film written and directed by Majid Majidi. It deals with a brother and sister and their adventures over a lost pair of shoes. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1998.

Synopsis

The film starts with Ali (Amir Farrokh Hashemian) fetching his little sister Zahra's (Bahare Seddiqi), pink shoes after a cobbler has repaired them. He leaves them unattended to buy some potatoes. While he is pre-occupied, a homeless man picks up the shoes, hidden in a bag, thinking it was garbage and takes them away. Frantic to find them, the young boy thinking the shoes fell behind the crates knocks over plates of vegetables and is chased away by the grocer.

Actors

Reza Naji

(Ali's Father)
Christopher Maleki

(Salt seller)
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