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Shirin

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.

Date: 01/20/2008

Rating: 6.0

Cast: Taraneh Alidoosti, Pegah Ahangarani, Mahnaz Afshar, Juliette Binoche, Golshifteh Farahani, Leila Hatami, Behnaz Jafari, Mahtab Keramati, Niki Karimi, Merila Zarei, Baran Kosari, Tannaz Tabatabaei, Negar Javaherian, Hedie Tehrani, Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, Hanie Tavassoli, Gohar Kheyrandish, Homayoun Ershadi, Rana Azadivar, Sahar Dolatshahi, Rima Raminfar, Roya Taymourian, Bita Farrahi

Taraneh Alidoosti