The Peddler

Year: 1987

Runtime: 90 mins

Language: Persian

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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The film unfolds in three stark vignettes of Iran’s impoverished. In the first, a destitute couple burdened with several disabled children abandon their newborn, hoping for a better future. The second follows an isolated, mentally impaired young man caring for his dying, senile mother. The third tracks a timid, desperate peddler fleeing his brutal boss.

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