Shirin

Abbas Kiarostami with Mahnaz AfsharPegah Ahangarani and Taraneh Alidoosti

2008 Drama Iran 92 minutes

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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Directed by : Abbas Kiarostami

Genre: Drama

Shirin .

Casting

Mahnaz Afshar

Pegah Ahangarani and Taraneh Alidoosti

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