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Through The Olive Trees (Zire Darakhatan Zeyton) 103 minutes, Iran (1994), U
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Abbas Kiarostami directs this wryly comic portrait of the difficulties experienced by a filmmaker attempting to shoot in an earthquake-ravaged part of Iran

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Through The Olive Trees: Prior to Through The Olive Trees, Kiarostami had already made two films in the remote Koker village, which is situated several hundred kilometres north of Tehran. Where Is My Friend's House? (1987) concerned a boy attempting to return an exercise book to a fellow pupil...
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