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The Spectacles

All Films • 21m

عینک
Directed by Hossein Torabi • 1978 • Iran
A short film by Hossein Torabi. The story begin with a boy’s routine visit to optometrist. He has poor eyesight and is prescribed with glasses. That is the beginning of the troubles for the little boy, who lives with his single mother in poor outskirts of the capital.

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