No Choice

Nov 3, 2020

1h 48m

★ 6.0

Overview

A young homeless girl supports herself as a surrogate mother for money. A human rights attorney tries to help her change her life, but ithe challenges seem insurmountable. This is a rarely seen side of Iranian society.

Genres

Drama

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Cast

Golbahar

Pardis Ahmadieh

Ms. Nedayi

Negar Javaherian

Dr. Pendar

Fatemeh Motamed-Arya

Mojtaba

Mojtaba Pirzadeh

Dr. Saadat

Parsa Pirouzfar

Bahman Farmanara

head of the hospital

Homayoun Ershadi

Karim

Babak Karimi

Judge

Reza Behboudi

Parivash Nazarieh

Dr. Pendar's mother

Zhale Olov

Ahmad Hamed

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