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Shirin

You are the screen, they are the audience.

★ 6.1 (35 votes) | 2009 | 1h 32m
Drama
Overview

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.

Details
  • Status Released
  • Release Date April 18, 2009
  • Budget N/A
  • Revenue N/A
  • Production Kiarostami Foundation

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Shirin, directed by Abbas Kiarostami(2008)
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