Underplayed Gems

Life, and Nothing More... (1992)

Life, and Nothing More... poster
Original title
زندگی و دیگر هیچ
Directed by
Abbas Kiarostami
Genre
drama film
Country
Iran
Runtime
1h 35m
Rated
U
Rating
7.7 of 10 from 178 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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After a massive earthquake in Iran, a film director drives through the devastated countryside looking for the child actors who starred in his previous movie. He encounters survivors along the way, seeing how people carry on with their lives amid the ruins.

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What happens

And Life Goes On (Persian: زندگی و دیگر هیچ Zendegi va digar hich; also called Life, and Nothing More...) is a 1992 Iranian film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. It is the second film in Kiarostami's so-called Koker trilogy. After the 1990 earthquake in Iran that killed over 30,000 people, Kiarostami went to search for the stars of his previous film Where Is the Friend's Home?; this film is a semi-fictional work based on that search. Shot in a documentary style, it shows a director (played by Farhad Kheradmand) on this journey through the country in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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