Life and a Day

Mar 16, 2016

1h 52m

★ 7.9

We all die one day, don't worry, no one's ever left alive.

Overview

Somaieh, the youngest daughter of an indigent family, is getting married and fear is overwhelming each and every member of the family regarding how to overcome their difficulties after she's gone.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Filmiran

Life and a Day Trailers

Cast

Morteza

Payman Maadi

Somayeh

Parinaz Izadyar

Mohsen

Navid Mohammadzadeh

Azam

Shabnam Moghadami

Shahnaz

Rima Raminfar

Navid

Mahdi Gorbani

Leila

Masoumeh Rahmani

Mother

Shirin Yazdanbakhsh

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