Children of Heaven (1997)
بچههای آسمان
A Little Secret... Their Biggest Adventure!
Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes. School awaits.
- Date of release
- 1997-08-01
- TMDB
- 7.9 / 10 (762)
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Drama, Family
- Director
- Majid Majidi
Casting
- Amir Farrokh Hashemian — Ali
- Bahare Seddighi — Zahra
- Nafise Jafar-Mohammadi — Roya
- Reza Naji — Ali's Father
- Fereshte Sarabandi — Ali's Mother
- Kamal Mirkarimi — Assistant
- Behzad Rafi — Trainer
- Dariush Mokhtari — Ali's Teacher
- Mohammad-Hassan Hosseinian — Roya's Father
- Masume Dair — Roya's Mother
- Kambiz Peykarnegar — Race Organizer
- Hassan Roohparvari — Race Photographer
Interesting facts
- Box office: $1.6M
- Budget: $180K
- Earned 9× its budget
- Filmed in: Tehran
- Awards: 0 · Nominations: 2
Children of Heaven is a 1997 Iranian family drama film written and directed by Majid Majidi. The plot follows a brother and sister, and their adventures over a lost pair of shoes. It received positive reviews, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1998.
Production
The film was shot in Tehran. It was attempted to keep the filming secret in order to capture a more realistic image of the city. The production costs have been estimated at US$180,000. The film was distributed by Miramax.
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