Dancing in the Dust
Raghs dar ghobar
2003, Film, 100 min, Drama, Persian, Iran, MoviePedia score 67
When forced to divorce his wife by family and social pressure because her mother is a prostitute, Nazar works double shifts to pay back the loan he took out for his impulsive wedding and to pay some ongoing restitution to his sweet jilted bride, Reyhaneh. When he falls behind in the payments he flees the police and ends up in the desert with an uncommunicative old man who catches poisonous snakes for their venom. These two are forced to coexist in the desert, because Nazar is unwilling to return to the city and wants to catch snakes to make enough money to settle his debts. His verbose, chattering annoys the reticent old man until Nazar's life is endangered.
Directed by Asghar Farhadi
Cast
- Faramarz Gharibian as The Old Man
- Yousef Khodaparast as Nazar
- Baran Kosari as Reyhaneh
- Jalal Hadpor Seraj
- Saeed Noorullahi as Nazar's Father
- Mitra Tabrizi as Nazar's Mother
- Nobar Ghanbarian as Reyhaneh's Mother
- Teymour Ehsani as Snake Seller
- Saeed Ghareh Khan Lou as Engineer
- Abbas Ghasedi as Creditor
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