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Date produced: 1971

Filmmaker(s):

Naser Gholamrezayi

Country of Production:

Iran

Languages:

Persian

Duration:

00:25:00

Format:

8mm

Sound Notes:

Unknown

Awards/Recognition:

Winner of Silver at the 8th Cinemaye Azad Film Festival; Diploma of Honor at the 2nd Global Super8 Film Festival; Judges Prize at the 5th ABU Festival

Description:

The story follows a little girl named “Dokhtar Bas” who catches a frog for her mother to cut open and put on her father’s infected knee injury. The next day the wound is disinfected and her father goes back to work in the wilderness. Dokhtar Bas looks at the dried up corpse of the frog and asks her mother if her father is truly healed now. Later in an attempt to revive the frog she first puts it in water, then catches another frog and like her mother cuts it open and places it on the dead frog’s corpse, tying them together. Checking the bandaged bundle the next morning she discovers two dead frogs and she asks her mother again whether her father really is completely healed now.

Locations:

  • Iran (Filming)

Club Affiliation:

Cinemaye Azad

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