Shirin

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Shirin

"You are the screen, they are the audience."

2009

1h 32m

6.1(35 votes)

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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.

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ترانه علیدوستی

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Golshifteh Farahani

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Juliette Binoche

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لیلا حاتمی

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Zar Amir Ebrahimi

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Hedie Tehrani

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Pegah Ahangarani

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باران کوثری

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Tannaz Tabatabaei

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Ateneh Faghih Nasiri

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Azita Hajian

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Afsaneh Bayegan

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افسانه چهره‌آزاد

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Elnaz Shakerdoust

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Elika Abdolrazzaghi

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Irene Zazians

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بهاره رهنما

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بهاره کیان‌افشار

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Behnaz Jafari

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بیتا فرهی

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Pantea Bahram

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Parivash Nazarieh

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Pouri Banaei

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Sorayya Ghasemi

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Hamide Kheyrabadi

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Homeira Riazi

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Khatereh Asadi

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Khazar Ma'soumi

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Darya Ashouri

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Rabeh Oskouie

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Raziyeh Boroumand

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Ramona Shah

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رعنا آزادی‌ور

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Roya Teymourian

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Roya Javidnia

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Roya Nownahali

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ریما رامین‌فر

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Ziba Borufeh

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ژاله صامتی

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ژاله علو

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Elsa Firuz Azar

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Sara Khoeniha

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Sarah Manninen

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Setare Eskandari

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Setareh Pesyani

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Sahar Dolatshahi

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Sahar Valadbeygi

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Solmaz Panahi

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Shabnam Moghadami

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Shaghayeh Djodat

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شقایق دهقان

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شقایق فراهانی

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Shohre Soltani

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Shahla Riahi

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Shahnaz Shahbazi

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Shirin Bina

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Shiva Ebrahimi

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Asal Badeei

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Fatemeh Goudarzi

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Fatemeh Motamed-Arya

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Fatemeh Naghavi

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Fariba Jedikar

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Fariba Kamran

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فریبا کوثری

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Falamak Joneydi

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Fahimeh Rastkar

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کتایون ریاحی

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Kamand Amirsoleimani

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Gelareh Kiazand

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گوهر خیراندیش

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لادن مستوفی

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Laleh Eskandari

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Laleh Saboori

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لعیا زنگنه

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Lida Abbasi

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Leili Rashidi

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Mahaya Petrossian

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Marjan Shirmohammadi

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Marjaneh Golchin

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Marziyeh Boroumand

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مریلا زارعی

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Maryam Kavyani

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Mozhgan Rabbani

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مهتاب کرامتی

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Mahtaj Nojoomi

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Mehraneh Mahintorabi

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Mahnaz Afshar

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نسرین مقانلو

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نگار جواهریان

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Negar Abedi

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Nayereh Farahani

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Niku Kheradmand

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Niki Karimi

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niusha zeyghami

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Hanie Tavassoli

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Hoda Nasseh

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ویشکا آسایش

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Yekta Naser

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همایون ارشادی

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