It's Winter

Feb 14, 2006

1h 26m

★ 7.0

Overview

Unemotional, restrained cinematographic poem, situated in a wintry and poor suburb of Tehran. A man is dismissed and his lack of prospects for the future make him decide to seek his happiness abroad. He leaves his wife and child behind and for a long time nothing is heard of him. Then a stranger turns up, a car mechanic looking for a job. The attractive single mother can’t resist his attentions. Very subtly, a struggle ensues that reflects that of a whole generation of young doubting Iranians who may want to leave the country, but hardly know how to start.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

AMA Media

It's Winter Trailers

Cast

Khatoun

Mitra Hajjar

Marhab

Ali Nicksaulat

Mokhtar

Hashem Abdi

Ali Reza

Said Orkani

Kleines Mädchen

Zahra Jafari

Mokhtars Chef

Valiollah Sali

Großmutter

Safari Ghassemi

Café Besitzer

Hossein Hadgbegi

Chef

Nasser Madahi

Prostituierte

Leila Solymani

Kellner

Mohammad Nazari

Polizist

Ali Fanaian

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