Stray Dogs (film)
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Stray Dogs is an Iranian film written and directed by Marzieh Meshkini
. Its a story about two orphaned children in post-Taliban Afghanistan
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and eventually was imprisoned. The mother of the children is also imprisoned - she got married again, as she thought her husband was dead in the war and now is accused of infidelity.
Every night the children spend with their mother in jail(they call themselves "night prisoners"). One day the prison commander denies all "night prisoners" and Gol-Ghotai and Zahed become homeless. It's a wintertime and they try to find a place to stay overnight, but still they dream to come back to their mother's prison. They are advised to steal something to get imprisoned by the police. After several robbery attempts which nobody noticed, finally Zahed steals a bicycle and his sisters cries and calls him a thief for everybody to notice. Zahed gets imprisoned, but in another jail than his mother.
Marzieh Meshkini
Marzieh Meshkini is an Iranian cinematographer, film director and writer. She is married to film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf who wrote the script for her début film The Day I Became a Woman.-Honors and awards:...
. Its a story about two orphaned children in post-Taliban Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...
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Plot details
Gol-Ghotai (a girl) and Zahed (a boy) are siblings living in post-Taliban Kabul. Their father is a mullah. He has fought against the Americans in a Taliban WarTaliban insurgency
The Taliban insurgency took root shortly after the group's fall from power following the 2001 war in Afghanistan. The Taliban continue to attack Afghan, U.S., and other ISAF troops and many terrorist incidents attributable to them have been registered. The war has also spread over the southern and...
and eventually was imprisoned. The mother of the children is also imprisoned - she got married again, as she thought her husband was dead in the war and now is accused of infidelity.
Every night the children spend with their mother in jail(they call themselves "night prisoners"). One day the prison commander denies all "night prisoners" and Gol-Ghotai and Zahed become homeless. It's a wintertime and they try to find a place to stay overnight, but still they dream to come back to their mother's prison. They are advised to steal something to get imprisoned by the police. After several robbery attempts which nobody noticed, finally Zahed steals a bicycle and his sisters cries and calls him a thief for everybody to notice. Zahed gets imprisoned, but in another jail than his mother.