Iron Island
Oct 05 2005
•1h 26m
•Drama
Squatters live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children and Captain Nemat runs it all with an iron hand. We follow a lad who rescues fish trapped in the hull, an old man who stares at the sun, the idealistic teacher, and Ahmad, the Captain's assistant who has fallen in love with a young woman whose father wants to marry her to someone of means. What future has this sinking city?
Cast
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Ali Nasirian
Captain Nemat
Hossein Farzi-Zadeh
Ahmad
Neda Pakdaman
Golpar Salehi
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