Life, and Nothing More…
The Earth moved, we didn't!
After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made there a few years previously. In their search, they see how people who have lost everything in the earthquake still have hope and try to live life to the fullest.
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And life goes on (1992)
Vivaldi | Life, and Nothing More...(1992)| Abbas Kiarostami
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