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Film / 2009
Shirin
Directed by
Abbas Kiarostami
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.
The story
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.
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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Afsane Chehreazad
Elnaz Shakerdoost
Elika Abdolrazzaghi
Irene Zazians
Bahareh Afshari
Bahare Rahnama
Bahare Kianafshar
Behnaz Jafari
Bita Farrahi
Pantea Bahram
Parivash Nazarieh
Pouri Banaei
Sorayya Ghasemi
Hamide Kheyrabadi
Homeira Riazi
Khatereh Asadi
Khazar Ma'soumi
Darya Ashouri
Rabeh Oskouie
Raziyeh Boroumand
Ramona Shah
Rana Azadivar
Roya Teymourian
Roya Javidnia
Roya Nownahali
Rima Raminfar
Ziba Borufeh
Zhaleh Sameti
Zhale Olov
Elsa Firuz Azar
Sara Khoeniha
Sarah Manninen
Setare Eskandari
Setareh Pesyani
Sahar Dolatshahi
Sahar Valadbeygi
Solmaz Panahi
Shabnam Moghadami
Shaghayeh Djodat
Shaghayegh Dehghan
Shaghayegh Farahani
Shohre Soltani
Shahla Riahi
Shahnaz Shahbazi
Shirin Bina
Shiva Ebrahimi
Asal Badeei
Fatemeh Goudarzi
Fatemeh Motamed-Arya
Fatemeh Naghavi
Fariba Jedikar
Fariba Kamran
Fariba Kowsari
Falamak Joneydi
Fahimeh Rastkar
Katayoun Riahi
Kamand Amirsoleimani
Gelareh Kiazand
Gohar Kheyrandish
Ladan Mostoufi
Laleh Eskandari
Laleh Saboori
Laya Zanganeh
Lida Abbasi
Leili Rashidi
Mahaya Petrossian
Marjan Shirmohammadi
Marjaneh Golchin
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