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Turtles Can Fly

Turtles Can Fly

2004•1h 38m•7.8/10
Drama

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7.8/10(240)

Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.

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Production

Bac Films, Mij Film Co., Bahman Ghobadi Films

Language

KU

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Soran Ebrahim

Soran Ebrahim

Mr. Satellite (Soran)

Avaz Latif

Agrin

Saddam Hossein Feysal

Pashow

Hiresh Feysal Rahman

Hengov

Abdol Rahman Karim

Riga

Ajil Zibari

Shirkooh

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