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He described the whole process of making the film deeply surreal. Part of what makes the film so loved is how natural the performances are. He proved to be a good natural actor.
A few years after the film's release, the northern part of Iran suffered a massive earthquake that killed thousands of people in 1990, known as the Manjil-Rudbar earthquake.
They had no prior acting experience before the film and the film would be their only lead roles.
Babak later said they simply recited Kiarostami’s lines without knowing they would become a film. He and his brother make brief background appearances in the final film of Abbas Kiarostami’s Koker Trilogy titled Through The Olive Trees.
They were interviewed by Houman Baba-Nouruzi in the 2018 documentary Tree Of Life.
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(1987).In late-1986, Kiarostami had been taking a trip to the village of Koker and had selected him and his brother as the two leads for his film. Babek wasn't a trained actor and on most the scenes, the director simply told him to present and recreate actions things that were part of his daily life. Kiarostami was concerned about Babek's fate after the tragedy since not only the director was shooting his new film near the place but he knew the boy lived around there.
In the award winning film, Poor plays a conflicted boy concerned in finding his best friend's house so he can return a notebook containing his lessons, an important task to get delivered on the following day and the urgency comes to avoid a possible expulsion of his friend from school.
Babek Ahmed Poor was a local Iranian kid cast as the lead star of Abbas Kiarostami's film Where Is the Friend's House?
His search for the kid become the basis of And Life Goes On (1992), where Kiarostami recreates such events of finding Babek, who survived the earthquake and lived long enough to appear as himself in another film from the director, the highly acclaimed Through the Olive Trees (1994), selected at the 1994's Cannes Film Festival.
Babek Ahmed Poor
Babak Ahamadpour, born in 1979 (or 1358 in the Persian calender) in the village of Koker in Rudbar County, Gilan Province of Iran, is an Iranian boy who is very well known in Iranian cinema and cinephile circles as the main protagonist Ahmed Ahmadpour in Where Is The Friend’s directed by Abbas Kiarostami, which is widely considered one of the greatest films of Iranian and global cinema, alongside his brother named similarly Ahmad Ahamdpour who plays the character’s best friend Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh.
He grew up with almost no exposure to media, and later recalled, “we had never seen television or a camera, and did not even know what film was”.