

Bread and Poetry
1993, Persian. Directed by Kiumars Pourahmad.
Majid who is working in a bakery, sends his poem to be published in a journal. He always dreams of becoming famous. Majid finds some pages of the book "Les Miserables" and becomes interested in reading it, but he has no access to it. He picks a book from the library of his brother-in-law and tries to change it with the book "Les Miserables" in the public library. He is not aware of the cheque of his brother-in-law between some pages of the book. This is a starting point for some other adventures which put Majid into trouble.
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- Persian
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- Released
- 1 August 1993
- Original title
- نان و شعر
- Country
- Iran
- Written by
- Kiumars Pourahmad, Houshang Moradi Kermani
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Bread and Poetry (1993) was directed by Kiumars Pourahmad and stars Mehdi Bagher Beigi, Parvindokht Yazdanian, Jamshid Sadri.