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First Case, Second Case

First Case, Second Case

Documentary

1979, Movie, 53min

Made in the spring of 1979, not long after the shah’s overthrow, this extraordinary film serves as a Rorschach blot for people in a revolutionary mindset. Abbas Kiarostami stages two versions of a classroom-discipline situation—in one, a student tells on a troublemaker; in the other, seven students refuse to rat—and then has several adult authorities comment on the outcomes. The fascinating responses evoke conflicts between order and resistance.

Country: Iran

Director:

Abbas Kiarostami

Cast:

Ezzatollah Entezami,

Ehteram Boroumand,

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