The film, which is in sharp monochrome, relates the story of a twenty-four-hour-long journey of two young Iranian soldiers (Issā and Emād) and a civilian driver (Amu Rahim) transporting thirty-eight Iraqi prisoners of war, taken from behind the Iraqi line, to a garrison inside Iran. From the details one is informed that the Iran–Iraq War has entered into its third year. The film masterfully depicts the deep inhumanity of acts of war amongst nations by showing the shared humanity of the combatants on both sides
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Khosro Shakibai
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Kiumars Pourahmad
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Kiumars Pourahmad Director · Habib Ahmad Zadeh Writer Mehdi Jafari Cinematographer
Budget $2B · First release November 3, 2007 · Produced in Iran
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$2,000,000,000
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Iran
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Original title
اتوبوس شب
Original language
Persian
Spoken on screen
Persian
Release dates
Iran · November 3, 2007
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No release date listed for United States.
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