The Bread and Alley

The Bread and Alley

Infobox_Film
name = The Bread and Alley


caption =Screenshot
director =Abbas Kiarostami
writer = Abbas Kiarostami
starring =
producer =
released =1970
language =Persian
runtime =10 min.
imdb_id =0066127
distributor =

"The Bread and Alley" (PerB|نان و کوچه, "Nān o Kūcheh") is a 1970 Iranian short film directed and written by Abbas Kiarostami. The ten-minute film was the first film directed by Kiarostami.

Shot in black and white, the film tells the story of a little boy walking home with a loaf of bread, who is confronted by a hungry dog, placing his safety at risk.

Film Details

This film was commanded to depict a reality that young boys could identify, in doing so it also set the use of a boy that has become a big part in most of Kiarostami's films afterwards.

ee also

*List of Iranian films

External links

*imdb title | id=0066127


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