Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes) |
Summary |
A tale of one middle-aged man who wishes to die in a society where suicide is considered as an abomination. Driving in the hills above Tehran, he meets an assortment of different characters : Afghans, Kurds, Turks, prisoners of the desert, a soldier, a seminary student and a museum employee, each with reasons to turn down the job : fear, religious scruples and humanist revulsion at a life wilfully squandered |
Performer |
Abdolrahman Bagheri, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari, Homayoun Ershadi |
Cast |
880-02 Humāyūn Irshādī, ʻAbd al-Ḥusayn Bāqirī, Afshīn Khūrshīd Bākhtarī, Mīr Ḥusayn Nūrī, Ṣafar ʻAli Murādī |
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880-02/(3/r همايون ارشادى، عبد الحسين باقرى، افشين خورشيد باخترى، مير حسين نورى، صفر على مرادى |
Event |
Originally produced by Mk2 Films in 1997 |
Notes |
In Persian with English subtitles |
Subject |
Suicidal behavior -- Iran -- Drama
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Drama.
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Foreign films.
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Drama
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plays (performing arts compositions)
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drama (literary genre)
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Drama
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Foreign films
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Motion pictures
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SUBJECT |
Iran -- Social life and customs -- Drama
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Genre/Form |
Feature films
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Fiction films.
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Feature films.
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Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
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Films de fiction.
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Form |
Streaming video
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Author |
Kiarostami, Abbas, film director, screenwriter, film producer, editor of moving image work.
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Ershadi, Homayoun, actor.
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Bagheri, Abdolhossein, actor.
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Bakhtiari, Afshin, actor.
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Noori, Mir Hossein, actor.
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Moradi, Safar Ali, actor.
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Payvar, Homayoun, 1944- director of photography.
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MK2 Productions.
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Kanopy (Firm)
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