Shirin

Apr 18, 2009

1h 32m

★ 6.2

You are the screen, they are the audience.

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Kiarostami Foundation

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Cast

Taraneh Alidoosti

Golshifteh Farahani

Juliette Binoche

Leila Hatami

Zar Amir Ebrahimi

Hedie Tehrani

Pegah Ahangarani

Baran Kosari

Tannaz Tabatabaei

Ateneh Faghih Nasiri

Azita Hajian

Afsaneh Bayegan

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Shirin

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