BASHU THE LITTLE STRANGER

A film by Bahram BEYZAIE

1986 / drama / original title : BashuGharibeh Kouchak / 120’ / Color / status : completed / long feature-film / International collections

ten-year-old Bashu is orphaned when his Persian Gulf village is bombed. Hiding in the back of a truck, he is taken north around the Caspian Sea, when he jumps off. The people in this alien land take a dislike to the little stranger and deride his skinand accent. Nai, a woman whose husband is away, finds the boy and accepts him as her own son.

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“A pure joy in which there are absolutely no false moves.”

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