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Shirin

Film

Shirin

You are the screen, they are the audience.

6.2

1h 32m

2009

“You are the screen, they are the audience.”

Synopsis

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.

Director

Abbas Kiarostami

Drama

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Cast & Crew

Taraneh Alidoosti

Taraneh Alidoosti

Golshifteh Farahani

Golshifteh Farahani

Juliette Binoche

Juliette Binoche

Leila Hatami

Leila Hatami

Zar Amir Ebrahimi

Zar Amir Ebrahimi

Hedie Tehrani

Hedie Tehrani

Pegah Ahangarani

Pegah Ahangarani

Baran Kosari

Baran Kosari

Tannaz Tabatabaei

Tannaz Tabatabaei

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