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.
Cast: Taraneh Alidoosti, Golshifteh Farahani, Juliette Binoche
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Shirin
You are the screen, they are the audience.
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.
Creators and cast
- Directors
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Producers
- Abbas Kiarostami, Hamideh Razavi
- Cast
- Taraneh Alidoosti, Golshifteh Farahani, Juliette Binoche, Leila Hatami, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Hedie Tehrani
- Studio
- Kiarostami Foundation
