The Color of Paradise
(1999)
★ 7.6 IMDb · 189 votes
Year: 1999
Runtime: 90 мин
Country: Iran
Director: Маджид Маджиди
Cast: Хосейн Махджуб, Мосен Рамезани, Саламе Фейзи, Фарахназ Сафари, Эльхам Шарифи, Бехзад Рафи, Мохамад Рахмани, Мортеза Фатеми, Камаль Миркарими, Масуме Зинати
Plot
Mohammad joyfully returns to his tiny village on summer vacation from the Institute for the Blind, unaware of his widowed father's intentions to disown him in order to win the hand—and dowry—of a local woman. With the wedding swiftly approaching, Mohammad's future hangs precariously in the balance as his father struggles against his destiny, unable to see the wonder of life and love that's so clear to his son.
Mohammad, a boy at Tehran's institute for the blind, waits for his dad to pick him up for summer vacation. While waiting, he realizes a baby bird has fallen from its nest: he chases away a cat, finds the bird, climbs a tree, and puts it back. His father finally comes and takes him to their village where his sisters and granny await. The lad is a loving student of nature and longs for village life with his family, but his father is ashamed of him, wanting to farm the boy out to clear the way for marriage to a woman who knows nothing of this son. Over granny's objections, dad apprentices Mohammad far from home to a blind carpenter. Can anything bring father and son together?