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Turtles Can Fly DVD

PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) :: MGM (Video & DVD) :: Released: 2005-09-20

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Turtles Can Fly Summary From Acclaimed Director Bahman Ghobadi (a Time For Drunken Horses) Comes The First Film Shot In Iraq Since The Fall Of Saddam Hussein. Heart-wrenching As Well As Spirit-raising (the Hollywood Reporter), Turtles Can Fly Mixes Humor And Tragedy To Startling Effect, Resulting In A Very Timely Masterpiece (tv Guide) About Children Struggling To Survive In An Endless War Zone. On The Iraqi-turkish Border, Enterprising 13-year-old 'satellite (soran Ebrahim) Is The De Facto Leader Of A Kurdish Village, Thanks To His Ability To Install Satellite Dishes And Translate News Of The Pending Us Invasion. Organizing Fellow Orphans Into Landmine-collection Teams So That They Can Eke Out A Living, Heis All Business Until The Arrival Of A Clairvoyant Boy And His Quiet, Beautiful Sister.

Too few films capture war from the point of view of the children who endure it--perhaps because it's awful to contemplate. But Turtles Can Fly manages to be both heartbreaking and galvanizing in its depiction of young Iraqis waiting for the U.S. Army to roll over their village on the border of Turkey. A boy called Satellite (Soran Ebrahim), so called because he knows how to hook up a satellite dish, divides his time turning himself into a big operator--he commands a small army of children who search the fields for land mines they can sell to the U.N.--and wooing a pretty but haunted girl named Agrin (Avaz Latif) whose brother has no arms but can see the future. Satellite's mixture of scheming and genuine compassion drives the movie forward; it's impossible not to become engrossed in his courage and ambition, even as the world crumbles around him. Since the U.S. has linked its fate with that troubled country, learning a little about the Iraqi people would be good for everyone involved; fortunately, Turtles Can Fly is more than just an educational opportunity. Rich humor helps balance the harrowing circumstances, making the movie a riveting experience. --Bret Fetzer

Turtles Can Fly DVD Techincal Details Cast: Soran Ebrahim, Saddam Hossein Feysal, Hiresh Feysal Rahman, Abdol Rahman Karim
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Running Time: 98 mins
UPC: 027616928559
Binding: DVD
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: 2005-09-20
Region Code: 1
Specs: Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC

Language & Subtitles English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), Kurdish (Original Language),