The Bread and Alley
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Director Abbas Kiarostami Genres Short Film, Drama film Writer Abbas Kiarostami | 7.2/10 IMDb Screenplay Abbas Kiarostami Duration Language Persian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1970 (1970) Similar movies Directed by Abbas Kiarostami, Movies about Iran, Boy movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Abbas kiarostami 1970 the bread and alley
The Bread and Alley (Persian: نان و کوچه, Nān o Kūcheh) is a 1970 Iranian short film directed and written by Abbas Kiarostami. The ten-minute film was the first film directed by Kiarostami.
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Shot in black and white, the film tells the story of a little boy walking home with a loaf of bread who is confronted by a hungry dog, placing his safety at risk.
Plot
Returning from an errand to buy bread, a boy finds a menacing dog blocking his way through the alley he must pass to get home. Frightened by the dog's barking, he asks various passers-by for help but no-one pays him any attention, and he must find a solution all by himself: he throws the dog a piece of bread and, while the animal is devouring it, he continues on his way home.
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The Bread and Alley Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA
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