Iron Island (2005)

  • NR
  • 09/03/2005 (US)
  • Drama
  • 1h 30m

Overview

Squatters live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children and Captain Nemat runs it all with an iron hand. We follow a lad who rescues fish trapped in the hull, an old man who stares at the sun, the idealistic teacher, and Ahmad, the Captain's assistant who has fallen in love with a young woman whose father wants to marry her to someone of means. What future has this sinking city?

Mohammad Rasoulof

Director, Screenplay

Cast

Ali Nasirian's headshot

Ali Nasirian

Captain Nemat
Hossein Farzi-Zadeh's headshot

Hossein Farzi-Zadeh

Ahmad
Neda Pakdaman's headshot

Neda Pakdaman

The girl

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