Shirin
2008, Film, 92 min, Drama, Persian, Iran, MoviePedia score 64
You are the screen, they are the audience.
A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Cast
- Mahnaz Afshar as Woman in audience
- Pegah Ahangarani as Woman in audience
- Taraneh Alidoosti as Woman in audience
- Zar Amir Ebrahimi as Woman in audience
- Kamand Amirsoleimani as Woman in audience
- Khatereh Asadi as Woman in audience
- Darya Ashoori as Woman in audience
- Vishka Assayesh as Woman in audience
- Ra'na Azadivar as Woman in audience
- Pantea Bahram as Woman in audience
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