The Traveler
About The Traveler
Qassem Julayi, a boy in Malayer played by Hassan Darabi, wants to see the national team in Tehran. His family will not pay. He takes money from his mother, sells what he can, including a football, and gets on the bus. He arrives late, falls asleep, and wakes to an empty stadium.
Cast & crew
More about The Traveler
Abbas Kiarostami directed. He wrote it with Hassan Rafi'i. The institute, Kanoon, produced it. The Persian title is مسافر (Mosāfer). Mostafa Tari, Masud Zandbegleh, and Pare Gol Atashjameh are billed. The listed running time is 83 minutes.
Themes
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- He does not see the match. The stadium is empty when he wakes.
- The money for the ticket comes out of the house and off his schoolmates.
- Kanoon is the children's institute, not a commercial studio.
- Darabi is Qassem. He is not a professional child star in the billing.
Scenes
- He sells a football to raise the fare.
- He wakes and the ground is empty.
