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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792867418
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792867416
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 20, 2005
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 12586
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
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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.
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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
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Awesome movie. Incredible 'humaness' in the face of menacing forces. Human forces nurtured from kids to adulthood. I recommend this movie and aAli Soua about street kids in Moroccco. My 8 year also enjoyed this movie immesenly, few months after viewing it she stills once in awhile talks about it... particularly about the little girl... Powerful
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The title TURTLES CAN FLY is actually a metaphor for the film. They, the children (and presumably the Kurdish people), are like the turtle, struggling to navigate and rise above a sea of adversities, namely their surroundings and circumstances. In this case, they are refugees on the Turkish-Iraqi border eking out a living to gather and sell scrap military equipment, namely landmines.
While watching Bahman Ghobad's film TURTLES CAN FLY I kept thinking how gutsy and enterprising the ... Read More
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"I didn't watch this because it won all those awards. I watched it because Michael LaRocca recommended it."
These are words you'll never hear. And yet, I do have to throw my voice into this chorus and say it's humorous and tragic, for a powerfully moving film that you won't forget. I'm putting it over there on that little shelf of DVDs that I call "keepers."
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So here is this movie, set in Iraq shortly before the arrival of American troops. . .And there was misery in the country.
Leaflets drop from the helicopters of the liberating U.S Army. "We are here to take away your sorrows," the leaflets proclaim. "We are the best in the world." And. . .there still is misery in the country.
So allow me, a presently unproud American who has served his country, to question why "we are the best in the world"? Does our might make us so, our arrogance, our ... Read More
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A stunner of a film. Original, straightforward, effective. Does not indulge itself or the situation. Brillant, engaged storytelling.
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