Where Is My Friend's House? (1987) on Netflix
Ahmad takes his classmate Mohammad Reza's notebook home by mistake. Reza faces expulsion if it is not handed in, so Ahmad disobeys his mother and sets out for the neighboring village.
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- Netflix4.5/5
- IMDb8.1/1023,700 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes100%
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Plot summary
Ahmad, a grade schooler in the village of Koker, watches his teacher scold a classmate, Mohammad Reza, for turning in an incomplete homework notebook, and warn that the next offense means expulsion. Back home, Ahmad realizes he has carried Reza's notebook away by mistake along with his own. Reza will be punished if the notebook is not handed in the next day, so Ahmad disobeys his mother and sets out for Reza's house in the neighboring village of Poshteh. The adults Ahmad approaches mostly pay him no attention or say they do not know, and the search turns up wrong directions and dead ends.
Cast
- Iran Outarias Mother
- Ait Ansarias Father
- Sadika Taohidias Perzian Neighbour
- Biman Mouafias Ali, a neighbour
- Ali Djamalias Grandfather's Friend
- Aziz Babaias Waiter
- Nader Ghoulamias Property Owner
- Akbar Mouradias Old Man from Azerbaidjan
- Teba Slimanias Husband
- Mohammad Reza Parvanehas Man Mistaken for Ali
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Where Is My Friend's House? (1987)
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- The Japanese director Akira Kurosawa cited Where Is the Friend's House? as one of his favorite films, a striking endorsement for Abbas Kiarostami's drama about a schoolboy returning a notebook.
- Where Is the Friend's House? was Abbas Kiarostami's first film to gain major international attention, and it won the Bronze Leopard at the 1989 Locarno Film Festival and the Golden Plate at the Fajr Film Festival.
- In 2016, shortly after Abbas Kiarostami's death, the German director Werner Herzog called him one of the all-time most wonderful filmmakers and cited Where Is the Friend's House? as one of his best.
- The British Film Institute included Where Is the Friend's House? on its list of 50 films to see by the age of 15.
