Country: Iran
Year: 2001
Duration: 92'
Tuba works in a factory, lives a modest but serene life and does everything possible to support his family. Abbas, his eldest son, doesn't believe in a better future and is obsessed by the idea of going to work in Japan. In order to pay for the visa and the air fare he pawns his mother's house, the only thing of value the family owns. Tuba, although he is quite worried, stands by his son and does his best to help him.
"Right in the midst of the political elections in Iran, there was an atmosphere of anxiety and great expectations. Many working class families of modest means tried to find a balance between the difficulties of daily life and their hopes for the future" (Rakhshan Bani Etemad).
Biography
film director
Rakhshan Bani Etemad
Rakhshan Bani Etemad was born in Tehran in 1954. After graduating from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1979, he began making documentaries, directing nine from 1979 to 1996. In 1987 he made his first full-length fiction film, Kharej az Mahdudeh. In 1996, Turin's Festival Internazionale Cinema Giovani dedicated a complete retrospective to his oeuvre. Zir-e poost-e shahr is his eighth film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Kharej az Mahdudeh (Off the Limits, 1987), Zard-e Qanari (Canary Yellow, 1988), Pul-e Khareji (Foreign Currency, 1989), Nargess (1991), Rusari Abi (The Blue-Veiled, 1994), Banu-ye Ordibehesht (The May Lady, 1998), Baran-o Bumi (Baran & the Native, episodio, 1999), Zir-e poost-e shahr (Under the Skin of the City, 2001).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Rakhshan Bani Etemad.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Rakhshan Bani Etemad, Farid Mostafavi.
Director of photography: Hossein Jafarian.
Art director: Omid Mohit.
Editor: Mostafa Kherghepoush.
Sound: Asghar Shahverdi.
Cast and characters: Golab Adineh (Tuba), Mohammad Reza Foroutan (Abbas), Baran Kosari, Ebrahim Shaybani, Mohsen Ghazi Moradi, Homeyra Riazi.
Foreign sales agent: Jahangir Kosari, Rakhshan Bani Etemad per Farabi Cinema Foundation, 55 Sie-Tir Ave., 11358 Tehran, Iran, tel. +98-21-6708156, fax +98-21-6708155, e-mail fcf1@dpi.net.it.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Rakhshan Bani Etemad, Farid Mostafavi.
Director of photography: Hossein Jafarian.
Art director: Omid Mohit.
Editor: Mostafa Kherghepoush.
Sound: Asghar Shahverdi.
Cast and characters: Golab Adineh (Tuba), Mohammad Reza Foroutan (Abbas), Baran Kosari, Ebrahim Shaybani, Mohsen Ghazi Moradi, Homeyra Riazi.
Foreign sales agent: Jahangir Kosari, Rakhshan Bani Etemad per Farabi Cinema Foundation, 55 Sie-Tir Ave., 11358 Tehran, Iran, tel. +98-21-6708156, fax +98-21-6708155, e-mail fcf1@dpi.net.it.
TFF
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