

A Moment of Innocence
A semi-autobiographical account of an incident in Makhmalbaf's life when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two decades later, he tracks down the policeman he injured in an attempt to make amends.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $37.6K
- Language
- Persian
- marriage proposal
- winter
- gun
- policeman
- autobiographical
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical10 Nov 1999
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical2 Oct 1998
CanadaCA
- PremiereToronto International Film Festival6 Sept 1996
FranceFR
- Theatrical9 Apr 1997
GreeceGR
- PremiereThessaloniki International Film Festival1 Nov 1996
JapanJP
- PremiereTokyo International Film Festival1 Oct 1996
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical12 Jun 1997
SingaporeSG
- PremiereSingapore International Film Festival5 Apr 1997
SwitzerlandCH
- PremiereLocarno Film Festival13 Aug 1996
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A Moment of Innocence was released on 9 April 1997.
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CRCulver
8/22/2018
Though Mohsen Makhmalbaf eventually established a reputation as one of Iran's foremost filmmakers from the late 1980s, his early life was tumultuous: when he was 17, he stabbed a police officer at a protest against the Shah's regime and spent the next four years in prison, only being released after the Shah's overthrow. His 1996 film NUN VA GULDOON ("Bread and Flowerpot", released in the English-speaking world as "A …
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