Mohammad Ali TalebiCast
Hadi Alipour Amir Janfada Majid Alipour Mohammad Sharif Ebrahimi Bahman Hassani
Credits
Written by: 
Abbas Kiarostami
Cinematography: Farhad Saba
Music: Mehrdad Jenabi
Editing: Sohrab Mirsepassi
Produced by: Mohammad Mehdi Dadgo Makoto Ueda
Plot
A boy who breaks a school window is told that he must pay for it, so he searches for money in his village, in a gentle child's-eye story.
Sinekatalog’s take
A sweet and simple Iranian children's film.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.6 / 10 (599 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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