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Iron Island

(Jazireh ahani)

de Mohammad Rasoulof

Iran

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Director : Mohammad Rasoulof

Script : Mohammad Rasoulof

Cinematographer : Reza Jalali

Editing : Bahram Dehghan

Sound : Mohammad Mokhtari

Cast : Ali Nasirian, Hossein Farzi-Zadeh, Neda Pakdaman, Abdolkarim Ghani-Koovei, Aref Zakeri

Production :
Farabi Cinema Foundation
Mohammad Rasoulof
Abolhasan Davoodi

Distribution : 
Haut et Court Distribution
38, rue des Martyrs
75009 Paris
+33 1 55 31 27 27
info@hautetcourt
www.hautetcourt.com

Year : 2005

35 mm, Color, 90 mn, OV persan with french ST

 

 

An old oil tanker abandoned off the Iranian coastline. Under Captain Nemat’s authority, a small community of families from southern Iran has set up home on the decks, in the hold, in the cabins and has recons- tructed a village. On board, they cultivate vegetables, raise goats, the women bake bread, the men earn a living by selling scrap iron from the tanker’s bowels. The children try to escape family pressure by organizing secret movie nights. The boys hand innocent notes to the young girls. But even if the fathers keep watch, the tanker slowly sinks.

“I think that the observation of a community whose headman has a hold over them is a universal subject. In it, there are the themes of submission, betrayal, great expectations and disappointments... Portraying the movement of the whole was the most important aspect for me; not the fate of each individual but that of the whole community.” Mohammad Rasoulof

 

 

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