Shirin

Name: Shirin
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Genre: Drama
Released: 2009-04-18
Duration: 1 h 32 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Taraneh Alidoosti, Golshifteh Farahani, Juliette Binoche, Leila Hatami, Zar Amir Ebrahimi

Directed by Abbas Kiarostami

Drama

20091h 32m6.2

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.