Shirin
- Released on
- Runtime
- 92 mins
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.
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
- Pegah Ahangarani
- Mahnaz Afshar
- Juliette Binoche
- Golshifteh Farahani
- Leila Hatami
- Behnaz Jafari
- Mahtab Keramati
- Niki Karimi
- Merila Zarei
- Baran Kosari
- Tannaz Tabatabaei
- Negar Javaherian
- Hedie Tehrani
- Fatemeh Motamed-Arya
- Hanie Tavassoli
- Gohar Kheyrandish
- Homayoun Ershadi
- Rana Azadivar
- Sahar Dolatshahi
- Rima Raminfar
- Roya Taymourian
- Bita Farrahi
Director
- Abbas Kiarostami
Producers
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Hamideh Razavi
