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Gabbeh [videorecording] / a coproduction by Sanay§e Dasti and MK2 Productions ; a film by Mohsen Makhmalbaf ; written and directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: DVD 62705 | New Yorker VideoLanguage: Persian Summary language: English Series: International cinemaPublication details: New York, N.Y. : New Yorker Video, 2005.Description: 1 videodisc (75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 1567304222
  • 9781567304220
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/75 22
LOC classification:
  • CM DVD 00385
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Mahmoud Kalari ; music, Hossein Alizdeh ; editor, Mohsen Makhmalbaf.
Cast: Shaghayegh Djodat, Abbas Sayahi, Hossein Moharami, Roghieh Moharami, Parvaneh Ghalandari.Summary: "A folkloric carpet (Gabbeh), picturing a man and a woman riding away on horseback, is the prized possession of an elderly nomadic couple. When they ... wash it ..., a beautiful young woman ... emerges from the carpet to ... reveal the secret of the carpet. Once held hostage by the endless restraints of the family that fashioned the carpet, she reveals that the secret...lies within the mysterious black-clad rider on the white horse. Month after month, season after season, he had followed her family from afar, always present, always waiting, howling to her songs of love--longing for her to run away with him."--Container.
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DVD, widescreen presentation.

In Farsi with English subtitles.

Shaghayegh Djodat, Abbas Sayahi, Hossein Moharami, Roghieh Moharami, Parvaneh Ghalandari.

Director of photography, Mahmoud Kalari ; music, Hossein Alizdeh ; editor, Mohsen Makhmalbaf.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1996.

"A folkloric carpet (Gabbeh), picturing a man and a woman riding away on horseback, is the prized possession of an elderly nomadic couple. When they ... wash it ..., a beautiful young woman ... emerges from the carpet to ... reveal the secret of the carpet. Once held hostage by the endless restraints of the family that fashioned the carpet, she reveals that the secret...lies within the mysterious black-clad rider on the white horse. Month after month, season after season, he had followed her family from afar, always present, always waiting, howling to her songs of love--longing for her to run away with him."--Container.

Special features: Audio commentary by critic Godfrey Cheshire ; theatrical trailer.

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