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Shirin (2008) [N/A]

Featuring:
Mahnaz Afshar, Pegah Ahangarani, Taraneh Alidoosti

Written by:
Farideh Golbou

Directed by:
Abbas Kiarostami


Release Date:
January 20, 2008

Original Title:
شیرین

Alternate Titles:
Shirin
شیرین

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
Abbas Kiarostami Productions

Production Countries:
Iran

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 92

You are the screen, they are the audience.

Overview from TheMovieDB

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.

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Rankings and Honors

Shirin (2008) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes 80%
Awards Won: 1 nomination

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Production

Director:
Abbas Kiarostami

Director of Photography:
Mahmoud Kalari
Hooman Behmanesh

Editor:
Abbas Kiarostami
Arash Sadeghi

First Assistant Camera:
Nima Dabirzadeh

Original Music Composer:
Hossein Zarouri

Producer:
Abbas Kiarostami
Hamideh Razavi

Still Photographer:
Nima Dabirzadeh

Story:
Nizami Ganjavi

Thanks:
Ali Karim
Juliette Binoche

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