2009
6.1 (34 votes)
1h 32m
Genres
Drama
Production Companies
Kiarostami Foundation
Shirin (شیرین)
You are the screen, they are the audience.
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.
Key Crew
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Producer: Abbas Kiarostami, Hamideh Razavi
Director of Photography: Mahmoud Kalari, Hooman Behmanesh
Writer: Farrideh Golbou
Screenplay: Mohammad Rahmanian
Top Cast
Taraneh Alidoosti
Hedie Tehrani
Golshifteh Farahani
Baran Kosari
Pegah Ahangarani
Tannaz Tabatabaei
Ateneh Faghih Nasiri
