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Sang et or

Crimson Gold

(Talaye sorgh)

by Jafar Panahi

Iran

 

Sang et or

Director: Jafar Panahi

Script: Abbas Kiarostami

Cinematographer: Hossain Jafarian

Editor: Jafar Panahi

Sound: D. Farzanehpour

Music: P. Yazdanian

Artistic Director: Iraj Raminfar

Cast: Hussein Emadeddin, Kamyar Sheisi, Azita Rayeji, Shahram Vaziri, Ehsan Amani, Pourang Nakhayi, Kaveh Najmabadi, Saber Safael

Production:
Jafar Panahi Productions
3 Vozara Street 37th street
2nd Floor, Teheran - Iran
Mail: [email protected]

Distribution:
Ad Vitam
71, rue de la Fontaine au Roi
75011 Paris
France
Tel: 0033 1.46.34.75.74
Fax: 0033 1.46.34.75.09
Mail: [email protected]
www.advitamdistribution.com

Year: 2003

35 mm, Colour, 97 min
OV Farsi with French Subtitles

Unreleased

Prix Altadis - Un Certain Regard - Cannes Film Festival 2003

In Teheran, Hussein has come to a jewellery shop in a posh area to take revenge on the manager who has humiliated him. After killing him, he kills himself. A few days before, his friend Ali had shown him the receipt for a gold necklace found in a lost handbag. Hussein was unable to imagine such huge value, far beyond what he could figure out. His meagre salary would never allow him such purchase. He often feels humiliated and when he is forbidden to enter the jewellery shop for not wearing proper clothes, his uneasiness increases. Hussein is a pizza delivery boy. Every night he crosses the rich areas of Teheran on his bike and catches a glance of the life spent behind the walls and closed doors. He finds this hypocritical system more and more unbearable. One night, he enjoys the pleasures of a luxury life, both fascinating and miserable, and early morning, he quietly comes back to the jewellery shop.

 

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