A Simple Event(1973)

movie - first aired/released 1973-09-01 - 80 min - audience 6.1

Drama

Directed by Sohrab Shahid-Saless

The story of a ten years old Iranian schoolboy living with his mother and his father in Northern coasts of Iran. The boy helps his father in selling the latter's illegal fishing and helps his mother in shopping for her and bringing home water from a well. The three characters live together in only one room. Their life is austere. The boy eats only bread and milk every day... One day the boy's mother dies.