The Traveler (1974) Mossafer
The Traveler (1974)
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Genre: Drama
BDRip 1080p | MKV | 1920x1080 | x264 @ 5760 Kbps | 73 min | 3,20 Gb
Audio: Persian AC3 2.0 @ 448 Kbps | Subtitles: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Drama
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Writers: Abbas Kiarostami, Hassan Rafi'i (story)
Stars: Hassan Darabi, Pare Gol Atashjameh, Masud Zandbegleh
Kiarostami’s first feature focuses on a boy in a provincial city so avid to get to Tehran to see a soccer match that he’ll lie to adults and cheat other kids. A quest film that’s also a study of youthful obsession, it’s filmed in edgy black and white with a quiet energy that matches its hero’s. The Traveler has an acridly ironic ending and one of the best performances by a child in Kiarostami’s early work.
Kiarostami's first feature (made some 15 years before he became the darling of the film festival circuit) tells the story of a troublesome, amoral 10 year old boy (Hassan Darabi), living in a small town in Iran, who wishes to go to Tehran to see Iran's national football team play an important match. To achieve that, he steals money from friends and neighbors through a series of scams. After a number of adventures, he finally reaches Tehran stadium at the time of the match, but there, and without giving totally away the ending, he ends up getting some sort of comeuppance (as usual by Kiarostami, there is a great final shot). One of the remarkable things of the movie is how driven is the boy in reaching his objective, never thinking how what he is doing will affect other people, even those that are closer to him. Also fascinating is the film look at Iranian football culture during the 70s (which wasn't very different to football culture in other countries at the time). Kiarostami has a very fine hand in telling a story sensitively, and he avoids the pretentiousness he showed in later films, after he has been acclaimed by European critics.
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The Traveler (1974) Mossafer
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