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ERA
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34 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
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Life, and Nothing More…
"The Earth moved, we didn't!"
1992 1h 35m FA
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7.7
BANGER
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100%
CERTIFIED FRESH
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7.9
IMDB
★7.7TMDB · 189🍅100%Rotten Tomatoes★7.9IMDB · 7,923
Drama
Synopsis
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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.
“The Earth moved, we didn't!”
Cast
Farhad Kheradmand
Film Director
Pouya Payvar
Puya
Hossein Rezai
Hossein
Hocine Rifahi
Hocine
Ferhendeh Feydi
Self
Mahrem Feydi
Self
Bahrovz Aydini
Self
Ziya Babai
Self
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Writers
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Languages
- Persian
- Countries
- Iran
Want more? Switch to Cinephile mode in the header for DP, composer, budget, box office, production companies, keywords, and release history.
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Fun facts 🍿
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CRAFT
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Part of the "Koker Trilogy" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
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DIRECTOR
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Directed by Abbas Kiarostami, shot by Homayun Payvar. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
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DIRECTOR
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Editor Abbas Kiarostami shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
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ERA
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Farhad Kheradmand and Pouya Payvar and Hossein Rezai carry the top of the cast.
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FACT
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Marketing tagline: "The Earth moved, we didn't!".
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WILD
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IMDB entry: tt0105888 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
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Cinephile deep dive
The take
Abbas Kiarostami directs. Homayun Payvar behind the camera. Abbas Kiarostami cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Iran. Dialogue in Persian.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 134 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
- 2Part of the "Koker Trilogy" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
- 3Directed by Abbas Kiarostami, shot by Homayun Payvar. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
- 4Editor Abbas Kiarostami shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
- 5Farhad Kheradmand and Pouya Payvar and Hossein Rezai carry the top of the cast.
- 6Marketing tagline: "The Earth moved, we didn't!".
- 7IMDB entry: tt0105888 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 8Released under 15 different titles around the world.
The technical file
- Cinematography
- Homayun Payvar
- Editing
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Costume design
- Hassan Zahidi
- Runtime
- 95 min · 1h 35m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- FA
- Certification (US)
- NR
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 100% 🍅 Fresh
- IMDB rating
- 7.9/10 · 7,923 votes
- MPAA
- Not Rated
Awards
1 win & 2 nominations
Part of
Koker Trilogy
A series of films set in the rural northern-Iranian town of Koker. Poised delicately between fiction and documentary, comedy and tragedy, the lyrical fables in The Koker Trilogy exemplify both the gentle humanism and the playful sleight of hand that define the director’s sensibility. With each successive film, Kiarostami takes us deeper into the behind-the-scenes “reality” of the film that preceded it, heightening our understanding of the complex network of human relationships that sustain both a movie set and a village. The result is a gradual outward zoom that reveals the cosmic majesty and mystery of ordinary life.
Also by
Abbas Kiarostami
Trailers & featurettes
Watch the pieces
Production companies
Who made it
Kanoon
IR
Key crew
- Production ManagerAbdolhossein Sattarpour
- Assistant DirectorHassen Afakrimi
- Assistant DirectorAlirfa Akbari
- Assistant DirectorBehram Kadhemi
- SoundBehrouz Abedini
- SoundHassan Zahedi
- Assistant CameraHassan Zahedi
- Camera TechnicianFarshad Bashirzadeh
- Still PhotographerJasem Ghazbanpour
- Assistant CameraMohammad Reza Sokout
- Negative CutterNasser Ansari
- ProducerAli Reza Zarrin
- EditorAbbas Kiarostami
- EditorChangiz Sayad
- Costume DesignHassan Zahidi
- Assistant CameraJahangir Azad
- Production AssistantMohammad Tolu
Themes & keywords
What it's about, really
- earthquake
- disaster
- docudrama
- iran
Release history · US
When it landed
- Premiere1992-09-26· New York Film Festival
- Premiere1993-04-01· San Francisco International Film Festival
- Premiere1994-10-01· Chicago International Film Festival
- Premiere2019-09-21· Seattle International Film Festival
- Theatrical (limited)2019-07-26NR· IFC Center (2K Restoration)
- Theatrical (limited)2019-08-17NR· Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Digitally Restored Version)
- Theatrical1996-04-26NR· New York City, New York
- Physical2019-08-27· Blu-ray
Also known as
International titles
- And Life Goes OnUS
- Zendegi va Digar HichIR
- En het leven gaat doorNL
- Livet börjar igenFI
- Και η ζωή συνεχίζεταιGR
- Həyat, və Başqa HeçnəAZ
- Hayat, Sadece HayatTR
- La vida continúaAR
- And Life Goes OnAU
- And Life Goes On...US
- Život jde dálCZ
- Life and Nothing More...IE
- Life and Nothing More...NZ
- Life and Nothing More...ZA
- Life and Nothing More...GB
