Movie

Shirin

★ 6.2/10 · 38 votes 2009 1h 32m Released

Drama

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 Golshifteh Farahani Juliette Binoche Leila Hatami Zar Amir Ebrahimi Hedie Tehrani