The Hidden Half
2001•1h 43m•5.1•Released
Drama
An official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner. The official's wife of nearly 20 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes him a letter to read when he reaches the hotel - the story of her student days during the revolution of 1978. We see the story in flashbacks as he reads: she leaves her province on scholarship, joins a Communist youth group, avoids arrest, and comes under the sway of a suave older man, Roozbeh Javid, a literary-magazine editor. As she tells her husband about the hidden half of her life, Fereshteh asks that he listen to the woman facing execution, a woman and therefore one of Iran's hidden half.
Director
Tahmine Milani
Writer
Tahmine Milani
Languages
Persian
Cast
Niki Karimi
Fereshteh
Mohammad Nikbin
Roozbeh Javid
Atila Pesyani
Husband
Akbar Moazezi
Mr. Rastegar
Afarin Obeisi
Production
Producer
Mohammad Nikbin
Producer
Tahmine Milani
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