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DVD video

Title The actor / a film by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Published laguna Niguel, CA. : Ferdosi Multimedia, [2001]
©2001

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 MELB  791.4372 Mak/Act  AVAILABLE
Description 1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Summary Pudgy Akbar Abdi plays a popular film actor who has grown wealthy from appearing in mindless commercial comedies, although he longs to make serious art films like his idol, Charlie Chaplin. Akbar and his melancholy wife Simin (Fatemeh Motamed-Aria) live in a startling post-modern home furnished with the latest in high-tech gadgetry. Simin becomes increasingly obsessed with her inability to have a child and insists that Akbar should take a second wife, a mute waif of a gypsy girl (Mahaya Petrossian), who will disappear after being well paid for providing them with an infant
Notes "www.IranianMovies.com" -- cover
Farsi with English subtitles
Originally released as a motion picture: Iran, 1993
Based on 'Stone & Glass' by G. Dordi
Cast Akbar Abdi, Fatemeh Motamed-Aria, Mahaya Petrosian
Notes DVD. Region unspecified
Subject Feature films -- Iran.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Video recordings.
Author Makhmalbāf, Muḥsin.
ʻAbdī, Akbar.
Aria-Motamed, Fatemeh
Petrosian, Mahaya
Ferdosi Multimedia
ISBN 19493671710