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The Black Hen

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A temporary cease-fire allows the residents of a small Nepalese village to breathe a sigh of relief. Two young boys from different castes become close friends and raise a hen in hopes of selling the eggs.

Critics Reviews

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Tara Brady Irish Times 01/01/2017
3/5
With a nod to Robert Flaherty's ethnographs, director Min Bahadur Bham conveys a sense of centuries of unchanged, pre-industrial living, suddenly encroached by modernity. Go to Full Review Nigel Andrews Financial Times 12/27/2016
4/5
There's a rough and ready enchantment -- a magic of mood and landscape -- in the prizewinning Nepalese film The Black Hen. Go to Full Review Kevin Maher The Times (UK) 12/08/2016
3/5
A tough-love drama with shades of Bicycle Thieves. Go to Full Review Javier Ocaña El Pais (Spain) 04/25/2017
A film of a remarkable visual force, Kalo Pothi seems a more interesting work in the anthropological aspect than in a cinematographic one. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Aine O'Connor Sunday Independent (Ireland) 12/19/2016
4/5
Some of the acting is amateur but it works, leaving a sense of damage that honours the thousands of known casualties of the war. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

Audience Reviews

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SoyROXET 08/26/2022 I didn't like it, is boring 😴 See more 05/28/2018 Best movie i have known See more 01/19/2018 This is a cultural movie figuring the truth circumstance of nepal during 2001 AD where it frames about the two undeatchable friends and their journey to get their hen back and too the movie has strongly depicted linking events See more 04/02/2017 What a great movie hope slimier movies come out in Nepal. 100% recommend watching. See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Min Bahadur Bham

Director

Khadka Raj Nepali

Prakash

Sukra Raj Rokaya

Kiran

Bipin Karki

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Min Bahadur Bham

Screenwriter

Abinash Bikram Shah

Screenwriter

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The Black Hen

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Movie Info

Synopsis A temporary cease-fire allows the residents of a small Nepalese village to breathe a sigh of relief. Two young boys from different castes become close friends and raise a hen in hopes of selling the eggs.
Director
Min Bahadur Bham
Producer
Min Bahadur Bham, Catherine Dussart, Anna Kachko
Screenwriter
Min Bahadur Bham, Abinash Bikram Shah
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Nepali
Runtime
1h 30m