Lantouri

The story

Lantouri is the name of a gang that mugs people in broad daylight on the streets of Tehran and breaks into homes in the city’s rich northern district. The gang also kidnaps children from families who have become wealthy through corruption and embezzlement of state funds. The film begins with the confessions of individual gang members. Sociologists, human rights activists and political hardliners also have their say. Gang member Pasha runs amok because Maryam, a socially committed, self-confident journalist, does not reciprocate his feelings. The badly injured young woman demands lex talionis – the law, applicable in Iran, of ‘an eye for an eye’.

Cast

B Baran KosariBaroon N Navid MohammadzadehPasha M Maryam PalizbanMaryam R Reza BehboudiDoctor M Mehdi KoushkiMalak B Behnaz JafariMaryam's friend (Social Activist) F Fatemeh NaghaviMurdered Girl's mother P Parivash NazariehAttorney N Nader FallahWitness A Ardeshir RostamiSociologist H Hossein PakdelThe Judge B Behrang AlaviMaryam's suitor

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S Setareh PesyaniMaryam's friend B Bahram AfshariBahram S Siavash CheraghipourNewspaper's Manager (as Siavash Cheraghipoor) F FergaledgarKianoush K Kazem SayyahiPolice S Sajad Tabesh Y Yasna Mirtahmasb V Vahid Ghazi Zahedi H Hadi Ahmadi S Shahriar Fard A Amirhossein Taheri A Amirreza Ranjbaran M Meysam Norouzi A Alireza Khatami R Reza Robat Jazi H Hamed Esmailzadeh P Pantea Ghadirian M Mohammad Hosseinpour N Nezamoddin Kiaie M Masoumeh Aghaei F Fateme Asgari E Emad GhalandariAmir Ali (archive footage) (as Emad Take Off) H Hojjat Hassanpour SargarouiAlireza (as Hojjat Hassanpour Sargaroui) M Mohammad Hokmabadi M Mahdi Mirzaei M Masoud NaziriMahdi R Reza Rezaei A Amir SalehianDaryosh A Amir Hossein Taheri