Shirin

(2009)

★ 6.2 IMDb · 38 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2009

Runtime: 92 мин

Country: Iran

Director: عباس کیارستمی

Cast: ترانه علیدوستی, Гольшифте Фарахани, Жюльет Бинош, لیلا حاتمی, زر امیرابراهیمی, Hedie Tehrani, Pegah Ahangarani, باران کوثری, Tannaz Tabatabaei, Ateneh Faghih Nasiri

Plot

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.