La gale

1989
1h 25m

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Abolfazl Jalili's docudrama La Gale (Scabies) is about the painful lives of young offenders who are serving time in the reformatories of post-revolution Iran. Young Hamed, arrested for handi... Read allAbolfazl Jalili's docudrama La Gale (Scabies) is about the painful lives of young offenders who are serving time in the reformatories of post-revolution Iran. Young Hamed, arrested for handing out political tracts banned by the Islamic Republic, finds himself in a place of great ... Read allAbolfazl Jalili's docudrama La Gale (Scabies) is about the painful lives of young offenders who are serving time in the reformatories of post-revolution Iran. Young Hamed, arrested for handing out political tracts banned by the Islamic Republic, finds himself in a place of great suffering, in which illiterate and penniless orphans wash floors and sell their own blood.... Read all

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Mozjoukine

Drama-doc has the faults and qualities of the Iranian films of the eighties.

As entertainment, this little shown Iranian piece is heavy sledding. The Shah's police arrest a teenager for leafleting. There is minimal plotting and the characters are indistinct. As a depiction of the grim conditions in a sixties boys prison however it carries conviction.

Shot in the blue yellow color of their industry, this film is another demonstration of the wish to get away from the Hollywood model, more admirable than the humiliating SALAAM CINEMA. It may be a tribute to director Jaili's efforts that an outside audience is left uneasy watching this study in past humiliation which some observers saw as a comment on the present - certainly a film that needs footnotes.