The Silence
Classics • Independent, Drama
1998 • Iran • Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
A film imbued with the ideas of Sufism, The Silence tells of Khorshid, a young blind boy from Tajikistan who earns rent money for his family by tuning rare instruments but becomes enraptured by the sonorous music he hears on his way to work each day.
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