

The Silence
Khorshid, a blind child growing up in Tajikistan, is constantly distracted by music and sounds. This frequently causes him to be late to his job as an instrument tuner even though he runs the risk of being fired at a time when his family is in danger of being evicted from their house.
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- Released
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- Language
- Persian
- family drama
- blind
- child protagonist
- instrument maker
- blind child
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United StatesUS
- Theatrical10 Nov 1999
ItalyIT
- PremiereMostra del Cinema di Venezia6 Sept 1998
- Theatrical4 Dec 1998
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The Silence was released on 4 December 1998.
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CRCulver
8/22/2018
The director Mohsen Makhmalbaf made a number of acclaimed films in his native Iran over the Eighties and Nineties, but with the 1998 effort SOKOUT ("Silence") he moved farther afield for his shooting location: Tajikistan, where the locals speak a Persian dialect mostly intelligible to Iranians, but the culture is an exotic mix of Central Asian and Soviet traditions. Khorshid (Tahmineh Normatova), a blind boy aged …
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