A Simple Event
7.4
The story of a ten years old Iranian schoolboy living with his mother and his father in Northern coasts of Iran. The boy helps his father in selling the latter's illegal fishing and helps his mother in shopping for her and bringing home water from a well. The three characters live together in only one room. Their life is austere. The boy eats only bread and milk every day... One day the boy's mother dies.
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Sohrab Shahid-Saless Director · Omid Roohani Screenplay Azadeh Abbasifar Story
United States release April 7, 1975 · Produced in Iran · Original title یک اتفاق ساده
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Central Film Office of the Iranian Ministry of Culture
Production
Iran
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Original title
یک اتفاق ساده
Original language
Persian
Spoken on screen
Persian
Release dates
Iran · September 1, 1973
Premiere · Tehran Film Festival
United States · April 7, 1975
Premiere · New York New Directors and New Films Festival
Germany
June 1, 1974 · Premiere · Berlin International Film Festival
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