A Time for Drunken Horses
Released: 2000
Drama, War
After their father dies, a family of five are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq. Matters are made worse when 12 year old Ayoub, the new head of the family, is told that his handicapped brother, Madi, needs an immediate operation in order to remain alive. This heartbreaking tale shows the lengths to which a family will go in order to survive in the harshest of conditions, where even the horses are fed liquor in order to work.
Starring: Ayoub Ahmadi, Rojin Younessi, Amaneh Ekhtiar-dini, Madi Ekhtiar-dini, Kolsolum Ekhtiar-dini, Karim Ekhtiar-dini, Rahman Salehi, Osman Karimi
Directed by: Bahman Ghobadi
Written by: Bahman Ghobadi
Language: Kurdish, Persian
Scenes
An old man is ill and cannot pee. The other migrants try to stimulate his bladder by having a child pee into a river in front of him, but it doesn't work.
Eventually, the migrants are attacked by soldiers and the man pees himself in fright. You see the urine going down his pants leg and falling on the floor.
Alternate Titles
A Time For Drunken Horses
Sarhoş Atlar Zamanı
Tempo de Embebedar Cavalos
Un tiempo para los caballos borrachos
Il tempo dei cavalli ubriachi
Zeit der trunkenen Pferde
زمانی برای مستی اسبها
En tid for fulle hester
취한 말들을 위한 시간
Zamani Barayé Masti Asbha (Transliteration)