Sara is the perfect young housewife, eager to serve. When husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who get the funds. For the next three years, it is Sara, labouring secretly to pay the shady loan and save Hessam's manly pride. Until the truth is revealed and with it, the reality of her marriage

starring
Niki Karimi, Yassamin Maleknasr, Khosro Shakibai

a film by Dariush MEHRJUI

Iran, 1993, fiction, 1h40'

Country: Iran
Year: 1993
Duration: 100' (1h40')
Type: Feature Fiction

CAST
Niki Karimi... Sara
Yassamin Maleknasr (as Yasman Malek-Nasr)... Simi
Khosro Shakibai... Goshtasb
Amin Tarokh... Hessam

Produced by
Dariush Mehrjui... producer
Hashem Seifi... producer

Director:
Dariush Mehrjui

Writing Credits
Henrik Ibsen... (play)
Dariush Mehrjui... (writer)


Cinematography by
Mahmoud Kalari

Film Editing by
Hassan Hassandoost

Music by
Philip Glass

Art Direction by
Faryar Javaherian

Makeup artist
Jalal Moayyerian

Sound
Sasan Nakha'ie

Sound recordist
Asghar Shahverdi

Sound Mixer
Hassan Hassandoost (as Hasan Hasandoust)
Jahangir Mirshekari

Digital sound restoration
Erfan Yazdi (as Erfan H. Yazdi)

Negative cutting
Nasser Ansari
Akbar Karami

Thanks
Mahnaz Ansarian


FESTIVALS / AWARDS / SCREENINGS

1993 | Festival de San Sebastian | SAN SEBASTIAN, Espagne |
* Prix du meilleur film
* Prix de la meilleure actrice (Niki Karimi)

1993 | Festival des Trois Continents, Nantes 1993.
* Prix du Public
* Prix d'interprétation féminine

2002 | 12è Black Movie - Festival de films des autres mondes | GENÈVE, Suisse | 15 >24 mars 02 | www.blackmovie.ch
* Sélection [FEMMES, AU JOUR LE JOUR]