Shirin
“You are the screen, they are the audience.”
2009•NR•1h 32m•6.2•Released
Drama
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
Writer
Mohammad Rahmanian
Languages
Persian
Studio
Kiarostami Foundation
Cast
Taraneh Alidoosti
Golshifteh Farahani
Juliette Binoche
Leila Hatami
Zar Amir Ebrahimi
Hedie Tehrani
Pegah Ahangarani
Baran Kosari
Tannaz Tabatabaei
Ateneh Faghih Nasiri
Azita Hajian
Afsaneh Bayegan
Afsane Chehreazad
Elnaz Shakerdoost
Elika Abdolrazzaghi
Production
Company
Kiarostami Foundation
Producer
Hamideh Razavi
Producer
Abbas Kiarostami
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