The Bread and Alley

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The Bread and Alley
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Directed by	Abbas Kiarostami
Written by	Abbas Kiarostami
Release date(s)	1970
Running time	10 min.
Language	Persian
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The Bread and Alley (Persian: نان و کوچه, Nān o Kūcheh) is a 1970 Iranian short film directed and written by Abbas Kiarostami. The ten-minute film was the first film directed by Kiarostami.

Shot in black and white, the film tells the story of a little boy walking home with a loaf of bread, who is confronted by a hungry dog, placing his safety at risk.

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This film was commanded to depict a reality that young boys could identify, in doing so it also set the use of a boy that has become a big part in most of Kiarostami's films afterwards.

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List of Iranian films

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The Bread and Alley at the Internet Movie Database

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1970s	The Bread and Alley (1970) • Breaktime (1972) • The Experience (1973) • The Traveller (1974) • So Can I (1975) • Two Solutions for One Problem (1975) • Colors (1976) • A Wedding Suit (1976) • How to Make Use of Leisure Time: Painting (1977) • The Report (1977) • Tribute to the Teachers (1977) • Solution (1978) • First Case, Second Case (1979)

1980s	Dental Hygiene (1980) • Orderly or Disorderly (1981) • The Chorus (1982) • Fellow Citizen (1983) • Toothache (1983) • First Graders (1984) • Where Is the Friend's Home (1987) • Homework (1989)

1990s	Close-Up (1990) • Life, and Nothing More... (1991) • Through the Olive Trees (1994) • A propos de Nice, la suite (1995) • Lumière and Company (1996) • Taste of Cherry (1997) • The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)

2000s	ABC Africa (2001) • Ten (2002) • Five (2003) • Ten Minutes Older (2003) • 10 on Ten (2004) • The Roads of Kiarostami (2005) • Tickets (2005) • Certified Copy (2008)

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