The Liar Shepherd
(Choopan-e Dorughgu)
82 minutes, 2006
Tue. Oct 10, 9:30PM, Sequoia
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A small rural community loses its shepherd and an orphaned boy and his sister travel from afar to fill the position. The town elders are skeptical, but the resourceful siblings soon win over everyone from the resident codger to the village idiot. Given the task of escorting a sick mule to its final resting place, the boy spares the lame animal out of pity, setting off a chain reaction with dire consequences. An assistant director on the arthouse hit Baran, filmmaker Siroos Hassanpour upholds Iranian cinema's tradition of exquisite stories centered on children. The Liar Shepherd employs the convention of storybook fables (Aesop's tale of the boy who cried wolf is referred to throughout) to spin its yarn with a gentle grace that complements its folkloric nature. It may take a village to raise a child, but it also takes a kid to teach a township the meaning of true compassion. — D. Fear
Director: Siroos Hassanpour
Producer: Siroos Hassanpour
Screenwriter: Naghmeh Samini, Mohammad Rezaee Rad
Cinematographer: Parviz Malekzadeh
Editor: Hossein Zandbaf
Cast: Naqi Purreza, Mahyar Peiki, Maryam Hosseinpour, Mehrdad Fayyaz
Print Source: Cima Media International (CMI)
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Tehran, 19497
Iran
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