The Night Bus

For the Italian film, see Night Bus.

The Night Bus (Persian: اتوبوس شب; Transliteration: Otobus-e Shab) is an Iranian motion picture directed by Kiumars Pourahmad. It was made in 2006 and released in 2007.

The film, which is in sharp monochrome, relates the story of a twenty-four-hour-long journey of two young Iranian soldiers (Issā and Emād) and a civilian driver (Amu Rahim) transporting thirty-eight Iraqi prisoners of war, taken from behind the Iraqi line, to a garrison inside Iran. From the details one is informed that the Iran–Iraq War has entered into its third year. The film masterfully depicts the deep inhumanity of acts of war amongst nations by showing the shared humanity of the combatants on both sides. Some scenes of the above-mentioned garrison are reminiscent of those of the 1965 British film The Hill.

In the film, the Iranian characters speak Persian amongst themselves, with a variety of regional accents emphasising the national character of the war effort, but broken Arabic, comprehensible to a Persian-speaking person, when addressing the Iraqi prisoners. The Arabic dialogues of the film, by the prisoners, are accompanied by Persian subtitles.

Cast

Shakibā'í in the role of Amu Rahim
(Source: Film fra sør festivalen 2007)

Director

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Music

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Production

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Notes and references

  1. Sayyed Mostafa Razi'i, in Persian, Mazdisa, Iranian Artists Information Center, 10 February 2008, .

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