The Bread and Alley 1970 123movies

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Plot: Returning from an errand to buy bread, a boy finds a menacing dog blocking his way through the alley he must go down to get home. Frightened by the dog’s barking, he asks various passers-by for help but no-one pays him any attention, and he must find a solution all by himself: he throws the dog a piece of bread and, while the animal is devouring it, he continues on his way home.
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Endearing short film
The 10 minute film begins with a boy returning home through empty semi-urban alleys holding bread he has purchased for the family. He is merrily kicking an empty can as boy would a football. Suddenly a growling stray dog is in his way. The boy freezes in fear. He waits for someone to give him company to negotiate the alley. An old partly deaf man comes and the boy picks up the courage to follow him. But the old man enters a door in the alley and the boy is in square one.

He decides to throw a bit of the bread to the dog and negotiate the rest of the alley. The dog is happy and escorts the boy wagging his tail. At the door of his home, the boy’s mother slams the door on the face of the dog.

Cut to the next day. The boy is negotiating the same alley and the dog with a bowl of milk or buttermilk. The boy has drunk some of it as he has a milk mustache in evidence. This time the dog is angry and the bowl of milk is dropped.

Why does the dog behave this way? The slammed door? It is for the viewer’s interpretation.

This short was on show in a section on Early Iranian cinema at the on-going International Film Festival of Kerala, India

Interestingly dogs in some Muslim countries are not considered clean and not encouraged as pets. I wonder what the director Abbas Kiorastami’s view on dogs are.

P.S. The film is shot in color. The film is not in b/w as stated by IMDb.

In the loop
“Nan va Koutcheh” or “The Bread and Alley” is an Iranian 10-minute short film from over 45 years ago. It was the first career credit by renowned Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami and he was slightly under 30 when he made this black-and-white film. Don’t worry about the language as nobody is talking in here. It is about a boy who has to walk through an alley, but a stray dog is in the way, a pretty beautiful animal though. The ending was funny and shows that the dog is pretty smart, but what I liked most about the film is that it is about friendship and losing fear pretty much. This movie delivers from an emotional, from a dramatic and from a comedic perspective. An outstanding achievement and it’s almost impossible to make a better debut work than Kiarostami did here. Most filmmakers do not achieve something like this one here in their long careers. I highly recommend “Nan va Koutcheh”. A must-see for dog lovers. Quite a shame the actors (especially the boy) are not credited.

Other Information:

Original Language fa
Runtime 10 min
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Drama, Short
Director Abbas Kiarostami
Writer Taghi Kiarostami
Actors Reza Hashemi, Mehdi Shahravanfar
Country Iran
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
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Sound Mix Mono
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Negative Format 35 mm
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Printed Film Format 35 mm