Shirin
Jan 20 2008
•2h 32m
•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.
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Taraneh Alidoosti
Hedie Tehrani
Golshifteh Farahani
Baran Kosari
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