Photos Top cast Edit. Amir Farrokh Hashemian Ali as Ali. Bahare Seddiqi Zahra as Zahra. Nafise Jafar-Mohammadi Roya as Roya. Abbas-Ali Roomandi Shoemaker as Shoemaker. Sara Zamani Trainer as Trainer. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Zahra's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zahra until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes, Ali's. School awaits. Will the plan succeed? A Little Secret Their Biggest Adventure!
Rated PG for some mild language. Did you know Edit. Goofs When Ali and Zahra are meeting to swap shoes in the rain, we follow Zahra running through the soaking streets. When it cuts to the alley where the swap takes place, the ground is completely dry. After they split, we follow them running through a street which is watered down. Quotes Ali : Zahra, I have good news. Zahra : What news?
Zahra : What race? User reviews Review. Top review. Extraordinary Movie-making. Majid Majidi's Children of Heaven is such an extraordinary work of movie-making that it is in a realm of movies that are able to connect with anyone who remembers or is amidst their childhood, regardless of what country they come from.
Note: Films that have a universal appeal aren't necessarily better than films that only appeal to people from one or two countries, but making a film with a universal appeal is no easy task.
Petrified at his father's temper, Ali promises his sister that he will get his sister some new shoes as soon as possible. In the meantime, the two work out a tight shoe-switching schedule. The plot is inventive and provides some decent chuckles-good writing and comic timing. Hashemian is likable and relatable though he milks the babyish whimpering to an annoying extent. Naji is able to give us a stronger feeling that we are watching a real person on screen than any of the other actors in the film.
It is not until the last ten minutes of the film, however, that we are swept up in a crazy whirlwind of emotion, jolting from despair to joy to suspense though not in that order and the last ten minutes can make a movie great.
Majidi gives us homage to The Four Hundred Blows. Truffaut's film concludes with brilliant ambiguity, leaving us wondering whether Doinel's last five minutes on screen were triumphant or pathetic; Majidi does something quite similar less ambitiously in a way I would not dream of revealing.
Details Edit. Release date January 22, United States. Official Facebook Official site. The Children of Heaven. Tehran, Iran. Zahar and Ali must share a pair of shoes to attend their classes, but their schedules don't always line up. Zahra, wearing Ali's shoes that are too big for her, acidentally loses one in the gutter while trying to rush to meet Ali.
Much to Zahra's dismay, the classmate who'd accidentally acquired Zahra's prized pink shoes throws them out when her father rewards her with a new pair.
In this scene: Zahra Bahare Seddiqi. While shopping at the market, Ali loses his sister Zahra's shoes and searches desparately for them. In this scene: Ali Amir Farrokh Hashemian. Zahra is embarassed to be wearing her brother's sneakers until her kind teacher gives her some words of encouragement.
With no money and an ill wife, Ali's father takes out his frustrations on his son.
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