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Shirin poster

Shirin (2009)

You are the screen, they are the audience.

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.

Release: 2009-04-18
Runtime: 92 min
Rating: 6.2 / 10
Cast
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
Ateneh Faghih Nasiri
Ateneh Faghih Nasiri
Azita Hajian
Azita Hajian
Afsaneh Bayegan
Afsaneh Bayegan
Afsane Chehreazad
Afsane Chehreazad
Elnaz Shakerdoost
Elnaz Shakerdoost
Elika Abdolrazzaghi
Elika Abdolrazzaghi
Irene Zazians
Irene Zazians
Bahareh Afshari
Bahareh Afshari
Bahare Rahnama
Bahare Rahnama