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Turtles Can Fly

Turtles Can Fly

Jan 7, 2005
98 min
Drama
7.7/ 10
232 votes

Overview

Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.

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TMDB
7.7/10
232 votes
IMDB
8.0/10
21,238 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
87%
Tomatometer
Metacritic
M
85/100
Metascore

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Box Office & Budget

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Box Office$1,075,462Worldwide gross
US Box Office$258,578Domestic earnings

Awards & Nominations

23 wins & 8 nominations

Details

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Status

Released

Original Language

ku

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Revenue

$1,075,462

Production Companies

Bac FilmsMij Film Co.Bahman Ghobadi Films

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