Shirin (2008)

  • NR
  • 01/20/2008 (US)
  • Drama
  • 1h 32m

You are the screen, they are the audience.

Overview

A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.

Abbas Kiarostami

Director

Nizami Ganjavi

Story

Cast

Taraneh Alidoosti's headshot

Taraneh Alidoosti

Hedie Tehrani's headshot

Hedie Tehrani

Golshifteh Farahani's headshot

Golshifteh Farahani

Baran Kosari's headshot

Baran Kosari

Pegah Ahangarani's headshot

Pegah Ahangarani

Tannaz Tabatabaei's headshot

Tannaz Tabatabaei

Ateneh Faghih Nasiri's headshot

Ateneh Faghih Nasiri

Azita Hajian's headshot

Azita Hajian

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