1 h 32 min | Drama

IMDB 6.7 / 10 (2151 votes)

Shirin (2008)

شیرین | Iran

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.

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Description

Director

Abbas Kiarostami

Stars

Taraneh Alidoosti
Woman in audience

Pegah Ahangarani
Woman in audience

Mahnaz Afshar
Woman in audience

Juliette Binoche
Woman in audience

Golshifteh Farahani
Woman in audience

Leila Hatami
Woman in audience

Behnaz Jafari
Woman in audience

Mahtab Keramati
Woman in audience

Niki Karimi
Woman in audience

Merila Zarei

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Keywords

theater, play, experimental

Production

Abbas Kiarostami Productions

Actor

Taraneh Alidoosti, Pegah Ahangarani, Mahnaz Afshar, Juliette Binoche, Golshifteh Farahani, Leila Hatami, Behnaz Jafari, Mahtab Keramati, Niki Karimi, Merila Zarei, Baran Kosari, Tannaz Tabatabaei, Negar Javaherian, Hedieh Tehrani, Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, Hanie Tavassoli, Gohar Kheirandish, Homayoun Ershadi, Ra'na Azadivar, Sahar Dolatshahi, Rima Raminfar, Bita Farahi, Roya Taymourian

Creators

Juliette Binoche (Thanks), Abbas Kiarostami (Director), Mahmoud Kalari (Director of Photography), Hamideh Razavi (Producer), Arash Sadeghi (Editor), Ali Karim (Thanks), Nima Dabirzadeh (First Assistant Camera), Nizami Ganjavi (Story)

Release dates

20.01.2008 (US)

Shirin (2008)

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