Whisper with the Wind

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Whisper With the Wind
Directed by Shahram Alidi
Screenplay byShahram Alidi
Produced byShahram Alidi
Starring
  • Omar Chawshin
  • Maryam Boubani
  • Fakhr Mohammad Barzani
  • Valid Marouf Jarou
  • Mohara, Hossein Ghadr
  • Bistoun Ali Ghadr
Edited by Hayedeh Safiyari
Release date
  • 2009 (2009)
Running time
77 minutes
CountryIran Rojhalat
Language Kurdish

Whisper With the Wind, is a 2009 Kurdish drama film directed by Shahram Alidi in his first film. [1]

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Plot

In the years of military asphyxia in dictatorial regime of Saddam, in a very bad situation that everything was under the regime's control, people find any available way to keep in touch together. An old man is the post-man in a wide area of Kurdistan Iraq. His job is to deliver people's messages but not written one, but oral messages. He is an oral post-man and records and sells the messages of the folk and gets income in this way.

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References

  1. Mintzer, Jordan (20 May 2009). "Review: 'Whisper with the Wind'". Variety.com. Retrieved 22 May 2017.