A Separation

Feb 15, 2011

2h 3m

★ 7.9

Ugly truth, sweet lies.

Overview

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Asghar Farhadi Productions

Memento Films Production

A Separation Trailers

Cast

Simin

Leila Hatami

Nader

Payman Maadi

Razieh

Sareh Bayat

Termeh

Sarina Farhadi

Hojjat

Shahab Hosseini

Somayyeh

Kimia Hosseini

Nader's Father

Ali-Asghar Shahbazi

Interrogator

Babak Karimi

Miss Ghahraii

Merila Zarei

Simin's Mother

Shirin Yazdanbakhsh

Soldier

Mohammad Sajadian

Mrs. Kalaani

Armine Zeytounchian

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