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Shirin

2009 • 1h32m Drama

Rating

6.2/10

Popularity

2

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.

Details

Director

Abbas Kiarostami

Screenplay

Farrideh Golbou

Mohammad Rahmanian

Cast

Taraneh Alidoosti

Golshifteh Farahani

Juliette Binoche

Release date

4/18/2009

Status

Released

Origin country

IR

Vote count

37