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 |
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Farsi with English subtitles |
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Originally released as a motion picture: Iran, 1993 |
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Based on 'Stone & Glass' by G. Dordi |
Cast |
Akbar Abdi, Fatemeh Motamed-Aria, Mahaya Petrosian |
Notes |
DVD. Region unspecified |
Subject |
Feature films -- Iran.
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Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Video recordings.
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Author |
Makhmalbāf, Muḥsin.
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ʻAbdī, Akbar.
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Aria-Motamed, Fatemeh
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Petrosian, Mahaya
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Ferdosi Multimedia
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ISBN |
19493671710 |
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